Barbara Coloroso Quotes

It's fun to get together and have something good to eat at least once a day. That's what human life is all about - enjoying things.

Eating without conversation is only stoking.

Food is kind of the conduit that brings people together.

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.

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

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.

No better way to bond than food.

Laughter destroys any divisions between people.

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

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

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.

The sharing of food is the basis of social life.

I'm convinced that the main reason we've become so obsessed with restaurants is due to our basic need to get out of virtual space and into a real one. We're not going out to eat merely to share food; we're there to sit at the same table together, slow down, breathe the same air.

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.

No man is an island. No man stands alone.

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

No one person is an island.

What I like is the idea of a group, even if it's just two people - the idea of solitude within a group.

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

Food is our common ground, a universal experience.

There's nothing I like more than being on a dance floor with a thousand people feeling love for humanity.

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

Storytelling is important. Part of human continuity.

We've seen that there are a lot of people out there - teenagers in Topeka, housewives in Long Island, millionaire Internet start-up moguls - that all want to connect with each other about what it is to be human.