"Food unites as well as distinguishes eaters |①because of what and how one eats forms much of one’s emotional tie to a group identity, |②is it a nation or an ethnicity. The famous twentieth-century Chinese poet and scholar Lin Yutang remarks, “Our love for fatherland is largely a matter of recollection of the keen sensual pleasure of our childhood. The loyalty to Uncle Sam is the loyalty to American doughnuts, and the loyalty to the Vaterland is the loyalty to Pfannkuchen and Stollen.” |③So keen connection between food and national or ethnic identification clearly indicates the truth that cuisine and table narrative occupy a significant place in the training grounds of a community and its civilization, and thus, eating, cooking, and talking about one’s cuisine |④are vital toa community’s wholeness and continuation? In other words, the destiny of a community |⑤depends on how well it nourishes its members."