Food brings everyone to the table

“Food brings everyone to the table!”  That phrase was an understatement when I was growing up.  As the youngest of three brothers growing up on a farm, the table was where I learned a lot about life.  We were always hungry, and we most likely needed the most direction at that stage in life.  Lunch time was first and foremost a time to refuel and recover in preparation for the rest of the day. 

My mother always had the meal ready, and my brothers and I had the job of setting and picking up the table.  We would all sit down with mom on one end of the table and dad at the other and e...