Until I began to fathom my deep emotional connections with food, I had always thought that the ceremonial eating of the communion wafer, a symbol for the body of Christ, was a strange, almost barbaric, pagan ritual. However, now it may well be the only aspect of Catholicism that makes any sense to me at all. If you love someone, you just want them inside you. (I know what youre thinking, but let it go.) How many parents hug and kiss their kids and say, I love you so much I just want to eat you up! Love can and does enter through the mouth.

Taste by Stanley Tucci