Samin Nosrat Quotes

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

Food is kind of the conduit that brings people together.

The sharing of food is the basis of social life.

There's nothing more human than selling food to strangers, you know?

There's a great need to convene at the table with family and friends. People are feeling it and wanting it. For me to be a minor player in helping with that, it makes me so happy.

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

You bring people together with food. You connect them and tie the fabric of society together through food.

I could never just look at a meal as a time to refuel. For me it's an opportunity to accomplish something. To connect, to teach, to share values.

Theaters are always going to be around, and doing fine. With computers and technology, we're becoming more and more secluded from each other. And the movie theater is one of the last places where we can still gather and experience something together. I don't think the desire for that magic will ever go away.

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

What tribes are, is a very simple concept that goes back 50 million years. It's about leading and connecting people and ideas. And it's something that people have wanted forever.

I like to think of myself as the host at a party, and, if everybody is having a good time, so much the better.

Food can bring people together in a way nothing else could.

People should be conscious of the large contribution made by anything that gets people together easily in the reduction of loneliness and emotional well-being.

I'm interested in what bonds people together. You know, what brings us together in good ways? And there's not a lot known about that.

Eating without conversation is only stoking.

I'm just someone who likes cooking and for whom sharing food is a form of expression.

Food is our common ground, a universal experience.

It's human nature to want to be with other people.

Preparing food is not just about yourself and others. It is about everything!

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

Sports can bring people together in a way that politics cannot.

Cooking is the best occupational therapy for me. And when I cook, everybody comes to eat. It's the greatest thing.

Be in community, go out to dinner together, do things together. We lose that, we lose a lot. It's important to come together.

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.