"It seems to me that our three basic needs, for food and security and love, are so mixed and mingled and entwined, that we cannot straightly think of one without the others.  So it happens that when I write of hunger, I am really writing about love and the hunger for it ..."  – Food writer M.F.K. Fisher, "The Gastronomical Me"

 

Oprah shares the secrets of her "Love Sandwich," her own multilayered creation involving Pepper jack cheese, turkey and avocado. "It became the Love Sandwich because I first started making it just for Stedman," Oprah says. "... I think anything that you do should be done with the utmost care -- it's like giving a part of yourself. So when I'm sautéing the little scallions and I'm slicing the avocados ... it'll all be done with love. That's why we call it the Love Sandwich."  More...