In Hebrew, the word for bread is lechem .
Eating is seen as the battleground between the physical and the spiritual.
Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan, Made in Heaven , p. 84. When I eat chocolate, it has to be in a certain way. It has to be in little, tiny pieces that sit in my mouth and slowly increase their sweetness. This is best done when the house is quiet and I am also reading a good book. A few years ago I found out how this peculiarity came about.