My first novel is loaded with food references largely because my cupboards were bare, and I was writing hungry.
“Sometimes I have to accept a job I don't really want. Hardly anybody comes up to you with a commission; it's all competitions these days.”
“He that is thy friend indeed, he will help thee in thy need: if thou sorrow, he will weep; if you wake, he cannot sleep; thus of every grief in heart he with thee doth bear a part.”