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Food brings people together on many different levels. It's nourishment of the soul and body; it's truly love.

Food is so important - it sustains us, it provides a social focal point, and it is fun. I cannot unravel the difference between love in my family and the preparation of food because they are so closely woven.

Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food.

I realized that food was actually a metaphor for bringing us all together. It's about us communicating and being like family.

In the South, I think, food mirrors our lives. When I was growing up, no matter what you were grieving or celebrating, my mama would be at the door with a cake or a pie.

You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.

Food and love are all intertwined at our core level. It can be a very nurturing, wonderful, loving thing.

I think one of the best words in the English language is 'compassion.' I think it holds everything. It holds love, it holds care... and if everybody just did something. We all make a difference.

It is the food which you furnish to your mind that determines the whole character of your life.

For me, it is always part of my holiday to go and work my way along the shelf in the local artisan bakery with its breads, savoury tartlets, pastries and cakes. It is soul food: one of those things that tells you about a place and the history of a place and its people.