Recently, I find myself considering what food really means to me. It’s clear that food is important to me, I wouldn’t be what I am if it wasn’t. But, what does it really mean? The answer that I have found is that it is about building community and sustaining family. I create a circumstance under which people gather and share their thoughts, their feelings, and commune with their companions over a meal. Bringing people together is an incredibly important thing and that aspect of food consumption is seemingly lost as our lives move faster and faster and we have less and less time to sit down and eat a meal. I’m just as guilty as the next person and I have made it a point to eat dinner together at the table every night. Most of the time, this works. Sometimes it doesn’t.

The fact is that it is terribly important to bring people together. Without the ability to connect to each other, connecting to the food in front of us is ultimately meaningless. Making the space to create the environment and to re-learn the art of polite dinner conversation is just as important as the food that brings us to the table.

Connections is what it’s about and the most important connection is to each other.

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