“Chicken legs, beef ribs- they ate the food with their fingers, dipping into the horseradish sauce, feeding each other greedily. Laughing. They rolled leaves of cabbages and chewed on them like monkeys. They ate the golden potatoes as if they were apples. By the time they returned to the making of stock, and took the roasted veal bones from the stove and put them into the pot and filled it with enough cold water so that it could slowly simmer, their own legs no longer ached, their feet felt as if they could stand the weight of their bones for yet another day and they tasted of garlic and wine. "Thank you, chef," he said. "Thank you, chef." She opened the cheese larder and took out a wedge of runny Camembert, which she covered with a handful of white raspberries that he had draining in a colander by the sink. He opened a bottle of port. The dishes could wait. They sat on the back stairs of the tall thin house and looked over the lights of the steep city of Monte Carlo and out into the endless sea. The air was cool, the cheese and raspberries were rich and tart; the port was unfathomably complex with wave and wave of spiced cherries, burnt caramel and wild honey.” Food And WineEating TogetherSabine And Bobo Book:White Truffles in Winter Source: White Truffles in Winter
“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.” IfsMadeTogetherDifferencesWonderFourChildhoodFoodBrotherMomEatingCookingRestaurantsCulinaryRecognizingOlder BrotherEating AloneRestaurant BusinessEating Together Book:Bouchon Source: Bouchon
“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.” HumansTogetherEatingBreadMealsSatisfyingHuman ExperienceUnifyingEating Together Author:Barbara Coloroso
“Eating together happily can best be crowned by the vegetarian foods.” TogetherEatingVegetarianVegetarian FoodEating Together Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan
“When we come to the table, we shouldn't negotiate right away. We should spend time walking together, eating together, making acquaintance, telling each other about our own suffering, without blame or condemnation. It takes maybe one, two, three weeks to do that. And if communication and understanding are possible, negotiation will be easier. So if I am to organize a peace negotiation, I will organize it in that way.” IfsWayShouldTwoTogetherSufferingThreeUnderstandingWeekCommunicationWalkingEasierEatingTablesBlameOrganizeEnd TimesNegotiationAcquaintanceSpend TimeCondemnationEating TogetherWalking Together Author:Nhat Hanh
“One of the things that any kind of studies bring out is that the mere act of schooling - getting together, the organization involved, going to classes on time, and there're things being taught, sitting down with others with different backgrounds, chatting with them, and, sometimes when there are big barriers, eating together when there are school meals, which are big things together with a big social impact - they themselves have a major effect.” KindDifferentSometimesBigsSchoolTogetherSocialClassStudyEffectsTaughtInvolvedEatingMajorsSittingOrganizationImpactMereBackgroundsMealsBarriersBig ThingsSchoolingSitting DownChattingDifferent BackgroundsSocial ImpactEating Together Author:Amartya Sen
“You go to a restaurant in the States and kids have these game boards at the table. You don't see that in Italy or Spain. It's not because they can't afford to buy them, it's because that's not what eating together as a family is about.” StatesKidsTogetherGamesEatingTablesBoardsRestaurantsSpainEating Together Author:Emeril Lagasse
“Change the food in the schools and we can influence how children think. Change the curriculum and teach them how to garden and how to cook and we can show that growing food and cooking and eating together give lasting richness, meaning, and beauty to our lives.” ThinkingGivingChildrenShowsSchoolTogetherTeachOur LivesGrowingInfluenceEatingGardenCookingCooksLastingRichnessCurriculumCooking And EatingEating TogetherGrowing Food Author:Alice Waters
“I had a great childhood, a very close-knit family. We were all overweight, and we had good times eating together, I imagine.” TogetherImagineChildhoodEatingGood TimesOverweightEating Together Author:Stephen Furst
“Mothers who know do less. They permit less of what will not bear good fruit eternally. They allow less media in their homes, less distraction, less activity that draws their children away from their home. Mothers who know are willing to live on less and consume less of the world’s goods in order to spend more time with their children—more time eating together, more time working together, more time reading together, more time talking, laughing, singing, and exemplifying. These mothers choose carefully and do not try to choose it all.” KnowsWorldTryingChildrenHomeTogetherMotherOrderReadingTalkingLaughingMediaWillingBearsActivityEatingSingingDrawsFruitWorking TogetherGoodsMore TimePermitDistractionEating Together Author:Julie B. Beck
“My passion is about motivating as many families as possible to learn about vegetables and healthy eating together.” TogetherPassionHealthyEatingVegetablesMy PassionHealthy EatingEating Together Author:Jennie Garth