The Fannie Farmer Cookbook

Too many families seldom sit down together; it’s gobble and go, eating food on the run, reheating it in relays in the microwave as one dashes off to a committee meeting, another to basketball practice. As a result we are losing an important value. Food is more than fodder. It is an act of giving and receiving because the experience at table is a communal sharing; talk begins to flow, feelings are expressed, and a sense of well-being takes over.
- Marion Cunningham, From the preface to The Fannie Farmer Cookbook