the other likes. The wife's self-sacrifice and her love of pleasing her husband drive her to train herself to like what he likes, and to master its cooking...
If the couple are happy in their marriage, we find them quickly agreeing on what each of them likes and dislikes, and coming to an understanding on this question; and if the matter is the reverse, they make food a cause for stirring up troubles and misunderstanding...
And the mistress of the house, who is responsible for the kind of food served to the family, must not exploit her responsibility in order to dominate her family and rule over it; rather, it is wise for her to return to the old dishes she knows her husband prefers above others, while serving alongside them a small quantity of a new dish by way of trial. The husband
is then assured that his wife is truly working to please him... for among the signs of estrangement between husband and wife are the husband's distaste for what the wife serves, and his constant criticism of her way of cooking...
It is said that stout men like to encourage the saying that the fat of body are cheerful, placid folk whom nothing in the affairs of life troubles. Science has lately discovered that the person who eats more than he needs — as most stout people do — reveals by this act to others that he is unhappy within. The eminent scholar Dr. Lawrence Brown of Oberlin University described heavy eaters as follows:
"Those who are given to great gluttony are the failures in their married lives, the ones weary of life, the failures in their work, and those with an inferiority complex... By this they are
searching for a way to satisfy themselves and to cover up their deficiency — and this is the easiest of ways! As for those who are always at peace with themselves, they rarely eat more than they can manage."
An individual may change his mind about many new foods and grow accustomed to taking them, if he is one of those who travel and roam a great deal; but however a man's taste in food may shift, he returns again and again to the foods he has grown used to, which he prefers above all others, and which are a great means of expressing his personality.
Our personality is reflected in everything we do, to a great degree. And taking food constitutes a large and pleasant part of our daily life; therefore our personality is reflected in it more than in anything else!!!