A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.

Life is a journey. When we stop, things don't go right.

Fussing over food was important. It gave a shape to the day: breakfast, lunch, dinner; beginning, middle, end.

One consequential change is that people used to get most of their calories at breakfast and midday, with only the evening top-up at suppertime. Now those intakes are almost exactly reversed. Most of us consume the bulk--a sadly appropriate word here--of our calories in the evening and take them to bed with us, a practice that doesn't do any good at all.

If, at the end of my mandate, all Brazilians have the possibility to eat breakfast, lunch and dinner, I will have fulfilled the mission of my life.

It's just amazing how much food you go through in a day feeding 16 people breakfast, lunch and dinner,