The table is the perfect stage – and the food the right medium – to establish relationships through experiences; these ought to be shared, though social networks comprise an ever-growing part of this sharing. Behind this universal way of establishing relationships through experiences, there is the ancient human practice of gathering around the fire as a group, where our first complex social networks were born. It is in the routine of eating that community norms become ingrained from the day we come into this world. We cultivate our sense of taste together with other people in a socialising exercise that we continue throughout our lives.