"Eating is the most important thing in any Indian household and how you show your love and gratitude for a person is through the kind of food you serve him.
VOA: special.2010.05.12
Geoffrey Miller, an evolutionary psychologist at University College, London, thinks that music really is thefoodoflove.
Where better, Mr de Botton asks, to feel that pang of desire than spotting a potential love interest across thefood hall of a motorway service station - isolated, vulnerable and even unhappy.