Hospitality, food and learning

I really enjoy reading Deirdre Good's splendid blog On not being a sausage and one post last week just read mmmm... if you clicked on the link you went here. Here's a taster of what you find:

“With any decent form of teaching,” says Good, a professor of New Testament at the General Theological Seminary, “you’ve got to show a form of hospitality.”
Cooking dinner for your class (and holding class in your house) may sound extreme, but Good was simply putting two and two together: she enjoys cooking, and many of her evening students would be coming from out of town needing dinner.
In that first class, one student looked down at his plate and quietly said to Good, “this is the best first seminar I’ve ever had.”

This made me think about how hospitality and eating together, feeling at home with one another, sharing a table are important parts of building community. But I can see too how eating together helps the learning process. With all of the catechism classes I've been involved in the best ones always involve regularly having a meal together. Our current KT class has a picnic together but a different person each time brings a cake to share, it's great communion.
So I started wondering about how hospitable our churches are and the place of food in our congregations and work places. what is the place of food, hospitality and table fellowship in your ministry?