I think my attitude has always been to put food on the table.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It's important for me who is at the table with me; the moment when everyone speaks to each other and everyone listens. If there's good food, it's much better.
I grew up with that farm-to-table dining before it was sweeping the nation. I do think there's some value to really throwing yourself into food and embracing where it comes from.
Food is about communal togetherness. Our family does sit at the table. I think it's a great tragedy if a family doesn't have a table, as there is such an atmosphere of good will and warmth when we have eight people sitting around it.
The dinner table is a lively debate, and everybody weighs in in a different way. I like that, though.
Food still isn't my thing, but I've learned to respect its power and significance.
Leave the table while you still feel you could eat a little more.
Everybody is welcome to come to dinner, but there's going to be the adult table and the kids' table. Whiny people who want to throw food and make noise and interrupt and be rude and act like children, they can sit at the kids' table.
I wish anytime I went into a nice restaurant and asked for a table, they said, 'Well I'm sure you don't want one in the corner.'
Always rise from the table with an appetite, and you will never sit down without one.
The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going.