Capacity Quote by Francine du Plessix Gray

The shared meal elevates eating from a mechanical process of fueling the body to a ritual of family and community, from the mere animal…

— Michael Pollan

“All the episodes from my stories and novels are not about food only, but about meals. You can eat food by yourself. A meal,…

— Wendell Berry

A meal can be thought of as a ritual and a work of art, with limits laid down, desires aroused and fulfilled, enticements, variety,…

— Margaret Visser

“In modern times, making family meals happen is hard, but family meals are a better predictor of a child’s overall healthy eating, happiness, and…

— Katja Rowell

“In its essence, a meal is a creative act that has its genesis in the mind of someone who cares enough to plan it,…

— Andi Ashworth

Family dinner is how we civilize our children. It is how we get them into good habits like drinking water with supper, saying please…

— Laurie David

The family meal is really the nursery of democracy. It's where we learn to share; it's where we learn to argue without offending. It's…

— Michael Pollan

Food is also about pleasure, about community, about family and spirituality, about our relationship to the natural world, and about expressing our identity. As…

— Michael Pollan

A meal is a when you eat something that incorporates multiple food groups.

— Harley Pasternak

A meal, however simple, is a moment of intersection. It is at once the most basic, the most fundamental, of our life's activities, maintaining…

— Elise M. Boulding

“Studies have shown that families who eat dinner together are closer and healthier.”

— Sarah Ballantyne

Meals make the society, hold the fabric together in lots of ways that were charming and interesting and intoxicating to me. The perfect meal,…

— Anthony Bourdain