Food is our common ground, a universal experience.
- James Beard
Pul-e-Kumri, Afghanistan
Food is a central activity of mankind and one of the
single most significant trademarks of a culture.
What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.
- Lucretius, Roman Poet and Philosopher
Calcutta, India
Tibet
The smell of good bread baking, like the sound of lightly flowing water,
is indescribable in its evocation of innocence and delight…”
M.F.K. Fisher, The Art of Eating
Bakery run by widows, Kabul, Afghanistan
All sorrows are less with bread.
- Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote
Mauritania
If thou tastest a crust of bread, thou tastest all the stars and all the heavens.
- Robert Browning
Croatia
Bread is the king of the table and all else is merely the
court that surrounds the king.
- Louis Bromfield
Afghanistan
Istanbul, Turkey
Food to a large extent is what holds a society together and
eating is closely linked to deep spiritual experiences.
- Peter Farb and George Armelagos
Consuming Passions: The Anthropology of Eating
Rajasthan, India
Egg Vendor, Kabul, Afghanistan
Chef Wolfgang Puck, Los Angeles, California, USA
Date Seller, Yemen
Honduras
The table is a place of communion for life’s large and small events.
Art Smith, Master Chef
Peru
Vietnam
Refugee Family, Sri Lanka
- Kirby Larson, Hattie Big Sky
Cambodia
Priyadarshini Park, Mumbai, India
If more of us valued food and cheer above hoarded gold, it would be a much merrier world.
- J.R.R. Tolkien
Monsoon Waters, Indonesia
Beirut, Lebanon
Burma
Mumbai, India
The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
- E.M. Forster
