Every meal echoes with myth and fairy tale

I’m sure my meals are not a purely physical pleasure. All the associations of every other time one has had the same food (every rasher of bacon is now 56 years thick with me) come in: and with things like Bread, Wine, Honey, Apples, there are all the echoes of myth, fairy-tale, poetry, & scripture. So that the physical pleasure is also imaginative and even spiritual.

C. S. Lewis, in a letter to Mary Van Deusen of March 1955, Collected Letters vol. III.