Life At The Table was founded on my belief that connection and community take root and grow from spending time around the home dining table with family and friends.

Great food. Pleasing drink. Fab family and friends with chatter and laughter. This is the aroma, taste, and sound of life from around the table.

Fewer and fewer families engage in this simple nightly ritual. Modern culture has exchanged the pleasure of a satisfying meal enjoyed in the comfort of our home for tasteless, fast, convenient, and mostly nutritionally challenged food eaten in a hurry or in the car. This is not a good thing for our families or our collective well-being.

The truth is home-cooked meals don’t have to be elaborate to be good and good for you. Spending time at the table nourishes the body, soul, and spirit providing us a sense of connection and belonging that can only exist in relationship.

During my girls’ growing up years meal time was sacred to me. There was no TV, no radio, and no telephone interruptions allowed. For the most part I cooked.

We ate together at the dining room table and we talked; mostly they talked and I listened. We laughed. And sometimes we talked through some pretty difficult issues.

This is how I grew to know them and understand them.

They are both grown and gone now; we no longer share a nightly meal. But I treasure the memories and value the relationship that I have with them today built upon the time that I spent with them in their younger years.

I invite you to defy the gravitational pull of the fast life, the hurry, by spending time at the table with family and friends.

Gather.
Connect.
Commune.

For these have been some of the most satisfying moments of my own life.

Sandra Lewis
Founder
Life At The Table