The Table

What is missing in our current society is the ritual of shared home cooked family meals without the litany of complaints and dietary restrictions. Didn't our mothers teach us anything about being gracious? When you go to someone's house you do not fax them a menu of instructions in advance or in any way try to control the outcome of the meal. You must take the risk of submitting and allow yourself to receive what the hosts have to give. Have we all been so brainwashed to be consumers and to shop that we cannot accept the role of gracious guest or host? Has our consumer corporate culture and the climate of social media replaced what little we remember of face-to-face etiquette? Let's bring back the ritual of the tea party and the sacred altar of the table.