This article explains how human learning is marked, in a significant way, by the communicative experience that the human being has in the kitchen and the dining room. The senses learn and recognize the traditional, homemade, and foreign flavors through sociability in cooking and commensality; but this communicative experience also allows the individual to become a citizen who is a carrier of certain ways and manners, and to reproduce in accordance with their subjectivity certain ideological positions based on their social experience. Finally, it is argued that both cooking and commensality are determining factors in the care of others.