We can be unduly hard on ourselves as we grapple with the implications of declining an invitation.
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Nearly 80% of people have accepted invitations to events they didn’t want to attend.
Moms and dads have better physical and mental health when they dine with their children – despite all the work of a family meal.
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All that planning, shopping, prepping, serving and cleaning can pay off with better physical and mental health for all members of the family.
We love to bad-mouth processed foods – usually while our mouths are full of it.
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A food historian explains how the popular boxed dinner played an important role in kitchen science, wars and women’s liberation.
Hungry children stretch out their hands at a Somalian refugee camp in 2011.
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Talking about food is a productive way to understand a complex world. The dinner table is a place where the shame of poverty is most acutely experienced.