Ina Garten Quotes

Eating without conversation is only stoking.

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.

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

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.

No better way to bond than food.

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

The sharing of food is the basis of social life.

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

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.

What bothers me is that there is so much emphasis on food, rather than gathering and meeting - so that there is all this effort in creating the right food, whereas the food is only a small part of whether the encounter is successful or not.

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

Social media gives one a family to share one's life with.

I'm realizing now that I was always really curious about inviting people into a space and sharing information that way. But I didn't have any context for it. It was just fun because I was homeschooled and lonely and bored, and I'd do things to get people to come over.

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

I have a saying: I try to make the world smaller by making the party bigger.

Gaming brings people 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.

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.

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

The Internet can help you come out of your shell and gives you a chance to make friends who have the same passion as you, it's a real community.

We interact with the crowd, turn it into a party.

In such a fast-paced world, gathering people around a table to share a meal allows everything to slow down. I would ask people to sit at least once a week around a table and just enjoy each other's company. Give them the time to talk, laugh, and fill their bellies. It seems like a small thing, but it can bring so much joy to so many people.

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