Taking the Soup by Bessie Smith Moulton

Nearly every social event is around food, whether it is two family members sitting down together or a lavish wedding celebration. Each culture uses food to heal, celebrate, nurture, honor, welcome, commemorate, bind, sanctify, control, or even wound. Because food is our most basic necessity, it bonds us to each other and to the earth. Throughout history food has had power and meaning beyond the mundane. Whatever the association, food as symbol, connection, power or weapon, most of us experience food on more than one level.