Audience Quote by George Farquhar

Like the theater, offering food and hospitality to people is a matter of showmanship, and no matter how simple the performance, unless you do…

— James Beard

When poets write about food it is usually celebratory. Food as the thing-in-itself, but also the thoughtful preparation of meals, the serving of meals,…

— Joyce Carol Oates

“At the heart of early Christian worship was table fellowship. Throughout the first three centuries Christian communities gathered once a week for a meal.…

— Alan Kreider

Two elements enter into successful and happy gatherings at table. The food, whether simple or elaborate, must be carefully prepared; willingly prepared; imaginatively prepared.…

— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

The oldest form of theater is the dinner table. It's got five or six people, new show every night, same players. Good ensemble; the…

— Michael J. Fox

“What is a play? A public holiday? A lesson? A pastime? In the first place it might seem that a play ought to be…

— Alfred Jarry

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

To me, the stage is like my living room, or my home, and when you come over to my house, I have to be…

— Sheila E

In the theater, when people hear that you're writing a play, they want to know what it's all about, whether there's a role for…

— Marsha Norman

The table is a meeting place, a gathering ground, the source of sustenance and nourishment, festivity, safety, and satisfaction. A person cooking is a…

— Laurie Colwin

A restaurant is a fantasy-a kind of living fantasy in which diners are the most important members of the cast.

— Warner LeRoy

Dinners are defined as 'the ultimate act of communion;' men that can have communion in nothing else, can sympathetically eat together, can still rise…

— Thomas Carlyle