A family is a group of people having the same blood. A mother feeds her child with her own blood and milk for the first months of its life. From then on, a person's blood is created anew daily when the family eats together. Eating the same food together every day helps make the family a group of the same blood. In earlier times, the kitchen and the dining area were sacred places in the home. The mother kept the family together with the food she cooked. No other earthly ceremony surpassed it in importance.
- William Dufty, Sugar Blues