It was through cooking food and sharing it with each other that our ancestors learned how to become social animals.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I believe that we were meant to live as social creatures, to reach out and bless each other's lives.
The sharing of food is the basis of social life.
I realized very early the power of food to evoke memory, to bring people together, to transport you to other places, and I wanted to be a part of that.
We're social beings, and I need to know and remember where I came from.
We're highly social animals - I'm told by scientists that what makes us different from other animals is an acute social awareness, which is what has made us so successful.
We're not just social animals in the conventional way that people think. It's not just a bunch of us who hang out together. We have a very specific pattern of ties, and they have a particular shape and structure that is encoded in our genes. It means that human beings have evolved to live their lives embedded in social networks.
I realized that food was actually a metaphor for bringing us all together. It's about us communicating and being like family.
Growing up, I cooked in the house, and when I cooked, everyone would sit down and eat, and it was just kind of the way I connected with my family.
We are the species who cooks. No other species cooks. And when we learned to cook, we became truly human.
The Animals were a very separate and dissonant group at the time. We came from different backgrounds, different areas - we didn't even come from the same town, basically.