Food—like art, like music— brings people together, it’s true. It begins, though, with a private experience, a single person stirred, moved, and wanting company in that altered stated. So we say, “You have to taste this.” We say, “Please, take a bite.

— Jessica Fechtor

Meaning is not what happens, but what you do with what happens.

— Jessica Fechtor

To trust in your own aliveness, in your own ability to sustain and be sustained - there are times when there is no greater act of defiance.

— Jessica Fechtor

When I visit someplace new my favorite thing to do is eat...and walk, preferable to a place where I can eat some more.

— Jessica Fechtor