Food is community.

Below is a brief excerpt from an interview in the Globe and Mail with Michael Pollan.

IB: One of the reasons people want to eat in a more engaged way seems to be a longing for community, as an antidote to our technological isolation. Food is community--and a very physical form of community, at that.

MP: Shared meals, breaking bread, making food, with one another, with nature, across generations--there is a longing for that. One of the earmarks of industrial eating is eating alone. Our eating has become very isolated and anti-social. ... So industrial eating or corporate eating has undermined the social dimension of eating. And people miss that. And I think that is one of the drivers that brings people to this movement.

This hidden amongst a bunch of other commentary on the backlash that seems to be creeping up against foodies as being elitist. It seems like there's something else that people feeling they're missing and are now trying to capture.

How often is your food consumption communal?