It has been our pleasure to have been associated with the Food Pantry Jam in the last 20 years,

The pleasure of eating should be an extensive pleasure, not that of the mere gourmet. People who know the garden in which their vegetables have grown and know that the garden is healthy will remember the beauty of the growing plants, perhaps in the dewy first light of morning when gardens are at their best. Such a memory involves itself with the food and is one of the pleasures of eating. (pg. 326, The Pleasures of Eating)

As life's pleasures go, food is second only to sex. Except for salami and eggs. Now that's better than sex, but only if the salami is thickly sliced.

Everyone is built differently, and people are certainly different in what gives them pleasure -- guitar feedback is food for the soul for one guy, while for another it's like having a dentist's drill jammed in his teeth. Some of those differences come from upbringing, and some are genetic.

I don't categorize food as bad or a guilty pleasure.

See food as medicine eighty per cent of the time. The other twenty per cent of the time you can indulge.