Shared Meal Quotes

Thanksgiving began in 1621 when Native Americans sat down with a bunch of undocumented pilgrims. They had dinner and the pilgrims never left.

No better way to bond than food.

A meal, however simple, is a moment of intersection. It is at once the most basic, the most fundamental, of our life's activities, maintaining the life of our bodies; shared with others it can be an occasion of joy and communion, uniting people deeply.

To me, it's a religious experience to sit down at anyone's table. I feel so invited, like it's a sacred place.

I want to get the American people to start sitting at a table together and talking to each other, holding court, and enjoying a meal - and it doesn't have an expense.

My zero-stress way to host a gathering: Make the guests do the cooking.

The high spot of my day has always been getting home to have my dinner with my family. It still is: to have my dinner with Helen. It's a cocktail and dinner. I know I'm a tired old geezer, but there you are.

Every night at 6:30, my entire family sits down for dinner together. It's definitely the best part of my day.

I like small parties with people I know. I like eating pizza at home with my girlfriend.

The dinner even is only the parable of a dinner, commonly.

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.

And so, Thanksgiving. Its the most amazing holiday. Just think about it — it's a miracle that once a year so many millions of Americans sit down to exactly the same meal as one another, exactly the same meal they grew up eating, and exactly the same meal they ate a year earlier. The turkey. The sweet potatoes. The stuffing. The pumpkin pie. Is there anything else we all can agree so vehemently about? I don't think so.

A great dinner must include not only yummy food, but good conversation.

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

We may eat dinner together, but everyone puts the food in his own mouth.

Nothing like the act of eating for equalizing men. Dying is nothing to it.

I'll eat anything, even foods I've always shunned, when a friend cooks it.

We have dinner every single night, Monday through Friday, with our children. We sit down around 6 or 6:30 and it's a family dinner - it's time to check in, just to be around each other.

There's a certain time of day after sunset when people naturally seem to feel the urge to gather by a fire or a stove or a hibachi or another common source of heat and food, and hunker down together to eat and drink. Call it the blue hour.

Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration.

If you're dining with someone who wants the same cut, it's always better to get a 16-ounce steak and split it than to order two eight-ounce steaks. The longer something cooks, the more flavor it develops, so you'll get a better taste with a bigger piece of meat.

Barbecue may not be the road to world peace, but it's a start.

My mother and I, our favorite part of any baked pasta is the top, where the cheese gets crusty.

Get your friends together, even if it's just once a week or twice a month, and make dinner together.