Democracy Quote by Michael Pollan

There's something magical that happens when people eat from the same pot. The family meal is really the nursery of democracy. It's where we…

— Michael Pollan

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 shared meal is no small thing. It is a foundation of family life, the place where our children learn the art of conversation…

— Michael Pollan

This is the kind of upbringing we had instead of sitting in front of a damn television set all day long and never answering…

— Ernest Borgnine

The Food Network and the Cooking Channel have so many viewers. And, because there's no violence, some of that audience is children. So, I…

— Robert Irvine

The act of nutrition is not a purely physiological event... The family meal is a formality that cultivates in us... a capacity for sharing,…

— Francine du Plessix Gray

For the past several centuries the bonding power of the family dinner table has been one of the few constants, and now it's binding…

— Larry McMurtry

The family dinner table is the cornerstone of civilization and those who 'graze' from refrigerators or in front of the television sets are doomed…

— Judith Martin

I have always thought that there is no more fruitful source of family discontent than a housewife's badly cooked dinners and untidy ways,

— Isabella Beeton

As far as possible, everyone in the family should eat together.

— Mata Amritanandamayi

When 85% of the kids in America don't have one meal with their family, just imagine what that means. Just imagine, life is like…

— Alice Waters

More than anything, a lot of our family's history is tied to food. It's just one of those things.

— Marcela Valladolid