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Very rarely does food enhance the conversation. If the food is really good, there'll be much less conversation because you'd be concentrating too much on the food.

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

Food, to me, is always about cooking and eating with those you love and care for.

You learn a lot about someone when you share a meal together.

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.

My relationship with food is intimate. I don't eat and tell.

We're social beings, and food is one of the things we can use three times a day to connect with family or with friends.

What bothers me is that there is so much emphasis on food, rather than gathering and meeting - so that there is all this effort in creating the right food, whereas the food is only a small part of whether the encounter is successful or not.

Many people see the chance to eat something for nothing, without the need to cook or wash up, as the great consolation of going out to dinner. But they forget quite how difficult it is to talk to a stranger and eat at the same time.

The dialogue and conversation about food is everywhere - television, chat rooms, social media outlets and among everyday conversations.