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“We use eating as a medium for social relationships: satisfaction of the most individual of needs becomes a means of creating community.”

Needs Mean Use Individual Social Community Eating Creating Satisfaction Mediums Social Relationships

Book:The Rituals of Dinner: The Origins, Evolution, Eccentricities, and Meaning of Table Manners

Source: The Rituals of Dinner: The Origins, Evolution, Eccentricities, and Meaning of Table Manners

“Eating cookies that you bake with your grandmother is one of the greatest social steps one must experience in order to grow up into a decent world citizen, in my opinion.”

World Order Social Grows Steps Opinion Growing Up Citizens Eating Decent Grandmother Grandparent Cookies World Citizen Your Grandmother

Book:Roseannearchy: Dispatches from the Nut Farm

Source: Roseannearchy: Dispatches from the Nut Farm

“The sharing of food is the basis of social life, and to many people it is the only kind of social life worth participating in.”

People Kind Social Eating Bases Meals Social Life Participating

Author:Laurie Colwin

“Where hunger is imposed by external circumstances, the act of starvation remains literal, a tragic biological event that does not serve metaphoric or symbolic purposes. It is only in a country where one is able to choose hunger that elective starvation may come to express cultural conflict or even social protest.”

May Doe Country Able Purpose Social Events Circumstances Conflict Eating Remains Hunger Tragic Protest Symbolic Literal Starvation Metaphoric

Book:The obsession: reflections on the tyranny of slenderness

Source: The obsession: reflections on the tyranny of slenderness

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

Should Social Eating Obligation Fulfillment Meals Joyful Social Obligation

Book:The Art of Eating

Source: The Art of Eating

“I want us to be able to preserve our level of prosperity. We must constantly remind ourselves that Germany has been eating into its capital. It is only through successful management that we can once again secure our foundation of prosperity and social security.”

Want Has Beens Able Social Levels Successful Security Eating Management Foundation Prosperity Secure Preserves Germany Social Security Want U

Author:Angela Merkel

“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.”

“Instead of telling the world what you're eating for breakfast, you can use social networking to do something that's meaningful.”

World Use Social Eating Meaningful Breakfast Networking Social Networking Breakfast Being Important

Author:Edward Norton

“It does kids no favors, and sets them up for a potential lifetime of poor health and social embarrassment, to excuse them from family meals of real food. Everyone benefits from healthy eating, but it is particularly crucial at the beginning of life.”

Doe Real Kids Social Poor Healthy Benefits Eating Lifetime Excuse Favors Meals Crucial Embarrassment Healthy Eating Beginning Of Life Real Food Poor Health

Author:Andrew Weil

“Can anything be more disgusting than to hear people called 'educated' making small jokes about eating ham, and showing themselves empty of any real knowledge as to the relation of their own social and religious life to the history of the people they think themselves witty in insulting? [...] The best thing that can be said of it is, that it is a sign of the intellectual narrowness—in plain English, the stupidity which is still the average mark of our culture.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

“The perfect mystic is not an ecstatic devotee lost in contemplation of Oneness, nor a saintly recluse shunning all commerce with mankind, but "the true saint" goes in and out amongst the people and eats and sleeps with them and buys and sells in the market and marries and takes part in social intercourse, and never forgets God for a single moment.”