Marcelene Cox Quotes

There's something really wonderful about a party where you help yourself. Of course, first you get what you really want. But 'family style' service also really encourages people to connect with one another.

The sharing of food is the basis of social life.

Dinner was made for eating, not for talking.

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.

When you sit down to eat at a table, you are ready to take in nourishment - we all need to eat to live. Even in primal tribes, people ate together. It's the opening for friendship.

There is something profoundly satisfying about sharing a meal. Eating together, breaking bread together, is one of the oldest and most fundamentally unifying of human experiences.

Many people see the chance to eat something for nothing, without the need to cook or wash up, as the great consolation of going out to dinner. But they forget quite how difficult it is to talk to a stranger and eat at the same time.

Food is kind of the conduit that brings people together.

No better way to bond than food.

Why do you think millennials are so into food? It's the way they relate to each other.

Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.

Sharing food has always had a central place in civilized societies; it's no accident that so many of our cultural, religious and patriotic rituals are involved with eating.

My flat in Ladbroke Grove, west London, is in the best building in the world. It's like a commune - everyone gets on - and on Friday evenings I often cook us all dinner.

Sharing the same meal reaffirms kinship.

If you are what you eat, then you are shaped by what you share as you eat.

Meals make the society, hold the fabric together in lots of ways that were charming and interesting and intoxicating to me. The perfect meal, or the best meals, occur in a context that frequently has very little to do with the food itself.

In France, you're with the crew, and you have lunch with them. It's more like a family.

It was through cooking food and sharing it with each other that our ancestors learned how to become social animals.

If you watch a group of schoolchildren eating lunch together, you cannot help but notice how it is a comically Lilliputian version of the adult thing - the cocked eyebrows of conversation, the reaching for condiments, the shovelling of food into tiny mouths.

Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat.

The fun of cooking is the fun of communicating with people, even if it's just two people. As you're cooking, you're talking, you're having a glass of wine. It's wonderful; it's an experience. Once you get into cooking, it becomes something that you really look forward to doing.

Entertaining is much more than a reason to eat and drink; It's a reason to bond with friends and families.

I would say, probably 7 or 8 years into my cooking career, it stopped being about just food for me. Food's really fun, but I've always been about people, and I realized that food is just a really convenient tool for me to connect people and bring them together.

Sharing our meals should be a joyful and a trustful act, rather than the cursory fulfillment of our social obligations.

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