“[E]ating…should be intimate and something that draws families together, and I think one of the great tragedies of the American family is that we have utterly thrown that away, along a lot of other sacred things. we’ve just thrown it by the wayside,” says Tony Woodlief, author of Somewhere More Holy: Stories from a Bewildered Father, Stumbling Husband, Reluctant Handyman, and Prodigal Son.