Community Quote by Margaret Visser

I hope to use food as a way to connect with people.

— Damaris Phillips

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

Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It…

— Elsa Schiaparelli

The sharing of food is the basis of social life, and to many people it is the only kind of social life worth participating…

— Laurie Colwin

We're social beings, and food is one of the things we can use three times a day to connect with family or with friends.

— Kimbal Musk

“I love the treat and pleasure of eating when it becomes an act of focused giving and sharing...Wasting money and appetite on bad food…

— Lucy Knisley

Eating takes a special talent. Some people are much better at it than others. In that way, it is like sex, and as with…

— Alan King

The sharing of food is the basis of social life.

— Laurie Colwin

“The trend in modern American culture is toward ever more individualized eating... and with every food added to the list of things one does…

— Margaret Kim Peterson

“In most cultures, eating together has far more symbolic value than simply “grabbing a bite to eat.” Sharing a meal together can often be…

— David Livermore

“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

When you sit down to eat at a table, you are ready to take in nourishment - we all need to eat to live.…

— Lidia Bastianich