Ebert, in 2005
Sun-Times movie critic and eloquent bon vivant Roger Ebert is unable to eat or drink, the result of a series of failed surgeries to treat his thyroid cancer. In a thoughtful take on his situation, he recalls that it's not the tastes that he misses — he hardly remembers the food at "the best meal I have ever been served," at Les Pres d'Eugenie in Eugénie-les-Bains. Instead, it's the social bonhomie of being at table, it's "the loss of dining, not the loss of food ... unless I'm alone, it doesn't involve dinner if it doesn't involve talking. The food and drink I can do without easily." [Roger Ebert's Journal]
