Quotes About Connection

Food is about being happy - at a table, thats probably where we spend most of our happiest hours.

What keeps me motivated is not the food itself but all the bonds and memories the food represents.

More important than the food pairing is the person with whom you drink the wine.

The gentle art of gastronomy is a friendly one. It hurdles the language barrier, makes friends among civilized people, and warms the heart.

He who receives his friends and gives no personal attention to the meal which is being prepared for them, is not worthy of having friends.

We need art as much as we need good works. You need it like food. You need it for inspiration to keep going on the days that your low. We need each other in that way.

Food is not about impressing people. It's about making them feel comfortable.

Why do babies starve /When there's enough food to feed the world /Why when there's so many of us /Are there people still alone

Food, to me, is always about cooking and eating with those you love and care for.

Street food, I believe, is the salvation of the human race.

From quite an early age I realised the effect that good food can have on others.

Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.

Food is about making an interaction with ingredients. If you talk to them, they will always tell you a story.

The best thing you can do for someone is make them a beautiful plate of food. How else can you invade someone's body without actually touching them?

To get the best results you must talk to your vegetables.

Shake the hand that feeds you.

I also think it's very important to consider how the food will feel to the person eating it.

Art is food for the soul, and an artistic climate is a healthy climate because it breeds empathy.

Preparing food is not just about yourself and others. It is about everything!

It isn't so much what's on the table that matters, as what's on the chairs.

Now, more than ever, we need to connect the dots between climate, poverty, energy, food and water. These issues cannot be addressed in isolation.

A significant part of the pleasure of eating is in one's accurate consciousness of the lives and the world from which food comes.

Cooking and shopping for food brings rhythm and meaning to our lives.

So how as a nation can we sit around and eat Mexican food, and drink beer and make friends? That's the question. If we can do that on a broader scale, I think we'll come out of it all right.