Gathering around a table is a primordial gesture that has accompanied our need for nourishment, conviviality, and sharing since the dawn of time. Coming together and sharing food are customs common to humans and the non-humans with whom we coexist. Trees, grasses, and mushrooms find their nourishment collectively, connected by hidden underground networks that reveal the complex system of knowledge transmission and cooperation on which their existence is based. Similarly, like any other animal, we have always united to obtain the resources we need to sustain ourselves. Be it around a table, a rug, a fire, or a basket, the forms of being together do not alter the substance of our conviviality, our “living together.”
