In my paper, I wish to present notions of empathy among the Bosmun of Northeast Papua New Guinea and how they connect to food-based action. In my doctoral thesis, I have argued that Bosmun foodways are “enactments of emotion” (Battaglia 1990) and thus also part of empathic processes. According to my interlocutors, a person’s sociable skills culminate in food generosity and in one’s assessing of another’s food situation. People make use of food to express socio-psychic and bodily states of being. To have food which can be shared with others is vital to the question of what makes people feel comfortable and related. To have food enables people to articulate emotional states and to either maintain or sever social ties. Relatives should watch each other carefully and they should make themselves transparent in a way that fosters the mutual process of assessing the other. Feeling into others is a moral obligation in Bosmun life, and emotions are not confined to individual interiority but negotiable in intersubjective encounters.