Richard Sax in collaboration with David Ricketts:
Cooking Great Meals Every Day: Techniques, Recipes and Variations
Random House, 1982

preface by M. F. K. Fisher pp.vii-x

I do not believe a normal human being can eat a "great" meal every day. I believe that everything we put down our gullets should be good, and made of honorable ingredients. It should, in other words, be worthy of its purpose, to nourish us as best possibkle. But a Great Meal is not an everyday thing. It happens unexpectedly, and the more we understand why it is great and not simply good, the better off we are for the rest of our conscious lives. But it simply cannot and dare not happen on schedule.