The shared meal is no small thing. It is a foundation of family life,
the place where our children learn the art of conversation and acquire
the habits of civilization: sharing, listening, taking turns, navigating
differences, arguing without offending. What have been called the
“cultural contradictions of capitalism”—its tendency to undermine
the stabilizing social forms it depends on—are on vivid display today
at the modern American dinner table, along with all the brightly colored packages that the food industry has managed to plant there.
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Talking about unpleasant things during a meal is not good for digestion, not good for health.
Betty Jamie ChungTag: health meals digestion unpleasant-conversation
Food cannot take care of spiritual, psychological and emotional problems, but the feeling of being loved and cared for, the actual comfort of the beauty and flavour of food, the increase of blood sugar and physical well-being, help one to go on during the next hours better equipped to meet the problems (p. 124).
Edith SchaefferHe didn't like to see either of the women in his family disappointed; it ruined perfectly good meals.
Maggie StiefvaterTag: women family meals gansey helicopter glassware painted-plates
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