Back Quote by Nancy Gibbs

Food not only connects us at the idyllic dinner table setting with family and friends: it is also part of our mundane, daily transit…

— Antoni Porowski

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

“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

Food is about communal togetherness. Our family does sit at the table. I think it's a great tragedy if a family doesn't have a…

— Jonathan Dimbleby

“The work party is also a strong tradition in the South. It was a hard life as a small farmer, and when it came…

— Deborah Ford

Dinner is often a very celebratory environment, a very safe place, a time to reflect and let the day go and enjoy good food…

— Brett Gelman

I don't do dinner parties. I have people come to share the food I've cooked for the family.

— A. A. Gill

Any celebration meal to which guests are invited, be they family or friends, should be an occasion for generous hospitality.

— Julian Baggini

The dinner table is a rite of civilization and we need to participate in that to keep our families together, to keep our communities…

— Alice Waters

“The dinner-table is often the terrain of critical conversations, for it is there one has the better of one's interlocutor. There is no escape…

— Maurice Renard

It is rarely [Americans] dine in society, except in taverns and boarding-houses. Then they eat with the greatest possible rapidity, and in total silence.

— Frances Trollope

You always knew when people were short on food because they'd show up to your place at dinner time and wouldn't leave. You know…

— Mike Tomlin