But in practice, eating alone feels wrong. I’m so accustomed to eating with people, and serving people who are eating with people, that the social aspect of it seems inextricable from any other step on that journey from farm to table. Without the shared appreciation, a meal might as well not exist, like a book with no one to read it except the author.
~ Erin Ergenbright in “Table for One” in Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant: Confessions of Cooking for One and Dining Alone