But something important about eating is lost when meals are never – or almost never – timed to be taken together. There’s an old word, ‘commensality’, which literally means eating at the same table. The food anthropologist Claude Fischler has written that commensality is what provides the fundamental human ‘script’ of eating in every society. It was how basic bonds of kinship were forged.
-Bee Wilson
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