Walter Benjamin Quotes

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

Food is the main engine that drives connectedness, relationship in Chinese society.

Yeah, well, food is always a part of everything.

One of the delights of life is eating with friends; second to that is talking about eating. And, for an unsurpassed double whammy, there is talking about eating while you are eating with friends.

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.

The social aspects of food are really important to me - my favourite food-related memories are meals I've shared with my family and friends. Posting Instagram pictures of your food and then seeing your friends comment on it is just a modern form of that kinship.

Eating together was a big part of my upbringing and a tradition we keep daily amongst the amazing team at Milk Bar.

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.

I wonder if I love the communal act of eating so much because throughout my childhood, with four older brothers and a mom who worked in the restaurant business, I spent a lot of time fending for myself, eating alone - and recognizing how eating together made all the difference.

To eat and drink without a friend is to devour like the lion and the wolf.

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.

Turn the preparing of food into a communal affair by enlisting others to help with the chopping, grating, stirring, simmering, tasting and seasoning. When the cooking is finished, eat together round the table with the electronic gadgets switched off so you can savor the food and let the conversation flow.

People are generally proud of their food. A willingness to eat and drink with people without fear and prejudice... they open up to you in ways that somebody visiting who is driven by a story may not get.

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 table, as there is such an atmosphere of good will and warmth when we have eight people sitting around it.

My aunt and uncle would come over when my mom was making this, or we would go over there when they were making that. That's what food is.

I think that food ties us to our community and our traditions, and it's the thing that makes us feel good and connected.

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

It's around the table and in the preparation of food that we learn about ourselves and about the world.

Eat deliberately, with other people whenever possible, and always with pleasure.

Cooking is all about people. Food is maybe the only universal thing that really has the power to bring everyone together. No matter what culture, everywhere around the world, people get together to eat.

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.

Food is kind of the conduit that brings people together.

Just because you want to eat vegetables and eat well doesn't mean you can't share food and have fun with it. It should still be an exciting thing. It shouldn't be just eating kale on your own in the corner.

Tapas is one of the world's most civilised drinking and eating traditions.

We Georgians are really into food and drink. We would never have finger food at a party or a wedding - celebrations are always one long meal, on one long table, with endless toasts.