"מזמור שיר ליום השבת, טוב להודות לד'..."
"The Creator desires to bestow happiness on Mankind. In addition to the pleasure of meats and fowl, grains, fish, and vegetables, the Creator wishes men to enjoy sweet and sour and bitter, and then to experience the varied delights of cherries, grapes, bananas, oranges, and pineapples. Man could exist efficiently even for the noblest of purposes witout pepper, ginger, cinnamon, cloves, saffron, sage, and the numerous spices. The multiplicity of luscious fruits and condiments in the world leaves not the slightest doubt that the Creator intended these unnecessary pleasures solely for the purpose of kindliness."
The Marvelous Wonders of Creation, by Rabbi Mordechai Menachem Reich ZT"L (Mordechai Menachem Mendel -en Dovid Aryeh), adapted from the works of Rabbi Avigdor Miller, ZT'''L