When I was alone, I lived on eggplant, the stove top cook's strongest ally.

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.

I was taught in my Introduction to Anthropology [course in college], it is not just the great works of [hu]mankind that make a culture. It is the daily things, like what people eat and how they serve it.

When I was alone, I lived on eggplant, the stove top cook's strongest ally.

The table is a meeting place, a gathering ground, the source of sustenance and nourishment, festivity, safety, and satisfaction. A person cooking is a person giving: even the simplest food is a gift.

No one who cooks cooks alone.

We know that without food we would die. Without fellowship, life is not worth living.