Eating and consuming food do not only cover our biological needs, to get the necessary nutrients we need to stay alive and healthy. Η food is associated with primary emotional attachment which develops between mother and baby when the newborn's first touch is the search for his mother's breast to drink her milk and feed, sealing his existence with the need for human contact. And then comes the lullaby and the dachtirism (see song and dance in the subsequent feasts) to fill with joy and enjoyment the basic human need for food.

Therefore, in most cultures the family table is a sacred moment, where the family reunites and shares, in addition to food, its joys and sorrows.

But also eating with friends or acquaintances, in addition to gastronomic pleasure, expresses the joy of meeting, is the link that unites us with the associates and the confirmation of our emotional and social relationships. It is no coincidence that we want to share the important events of our lives with loved ones or loved ones. around a table.

The philosophy with which we approach the process of eating together with others, our behaviors around a table reflect our mentality towards all parts of human life.

All of the above was said to highlight one of the most important features of our gastronomic tradition and at the same time a valuable component of Greek everyday life.

In GREECE, when groups eat in taverns and restaurants, the attendants share the first, salads and appetizers, eat the main dish they want, drink as much wine as they want, and at the end the bill is paid divided by the number of people of the company, regardless of what everyone has consumed, in contrast to the northern countries where the dishes are counted in Calvinistic detail, but also the bites and sips they consumed. And we have found dozens of times summers in snapshots where the food and drink of tourists in hotels or taverns ends in accounting of what was eaten by whom, apart of course from the tavern owner's panic to bring receipts on everyone's behalf!

While for the Greeks things are simple.

When we say him account please, and it comes, we know immediately what corresponds to each one since a division is enough.

Whether the sharing is financially fair, Greek justice has its own logic. We share equally the joy we felt eating together and we care little if some have been wronged, nor is it a table of joy and delight to be poisoned by accounting calculations.