Eunhae Han’s Reviews > The World Central Kitchen Cookbook: Feeding Humanity, Feeding Hope > Status Update

The word community shares its root with commensality-the act of eating together. You don't need to have been through a crisis to know that sitting around a table and breaking bread with friends and loved ones can uplift and heal-remember, longer tables, not higher walls.

Usually when people think about first respond-ers, in their minds they're thinking firefighters, police officers, people like that," said Yamil López, one of the core team members…For more than six months after the hurricane, the team cooked, reaching every municipality on the island and serving almost 4 million meals. A staggering 20,000 volunteers worked out of 20 kitchens and 10 food trucks around the island,

OF ALL THE THINGS YOU CAN LOSE, THE SADDEST MAY BE HOPE: hope for the future, for your family, for yourself.

To us, this is what good cooking is. It's not just the salt, the spice, the texture-it's the time and intention devoted to making a recipe. When you can see the world through someone else's eyes and listen as they tell you about their experience and current reality, that's empathy-an intangible ingredient that will make your cooking unforgettable.

The great culinary philosopher Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin wrote that the discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.