Edith Schaeffer Quotes

The reality is that we connect through food, and we have the opportunity to do it three times a day.

The sharing of food is the basis of social life.

Food, to me, is always about cooking and eating with those you love and care for.

For a dinner date, I eat light all day to save room, then I go all in: I choose this meal and this order, and I choose you, the person across from me, to share it with. There's a beautiful intimacy in a meal like that.

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

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.

Shared dining fortifies us.

The most essential part of my day is a proper dinner.

Food is our common ground, a universal experience.

It was kind of boring for me to have to eat. I would know that I had to, and I would.

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

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.

Food is the common language for all of us.

Food feeds our souls. It is the single great unifier across all cultures. The table offers a sanctuary and a place to come together for unity and understanding.

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.

Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too. How fortunate we are to be food-consuming animals. Each meal should be a treat and one ought to bless every day which brings with it a good digestion and the precious gift of hunger.

To eat together is one of the greatest promoters of intimacy. It is the satisfaction in common of a material necessity of existence, and if you seek a loftier meaning in it, it is a communion.

We're all eaters. That's our bond. Let's be real.

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.

The shared meal elevates eating from a mechanical process of fueling the body to a ritual of family and community, from the mere animal biology to an act of culture.

Food nourishes you, brings people together, and I feel that anybody can bond over food.

My meals were easily made, for they were all alike and simple, only a cupful of tea and bread.

My whole thing has always been as long as everybody else is going through it, I can go through it as well.

You know we fixate on the food so much itself: “Oh, the ultimate brownie or the ultimate this or that” -- well, let me tell you something: It’s all poop in about 12 hours, okay? The real power that food has is its ability to connect human beings to each other -- that’s the stuff right there and, to me, everything else is secondary to that.

Prayer time must be kept up as duly as meal-time.