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Simple Pleasures
Why eating together matters (Salon)
We _sapiens_ are the only animals that look each other in the eye while eating
without getting violent. At least most of the time. The other beasts fight
over their food; we talk over ours, and share. We have ancient rules of the
table, early glimpses of civilization, covenants that have softened into
traditions reflecting the basic humanity we find in eating, its rituals, and
its memories. If there is a leitmotif that follows the sinuosities of Adam
Gopnik's "The Table Comes First" -- his investigation into the pleasures of
the table, peeling back its veneer to examine the mechanisms that make it tick
-- it is "the simple path between eating well and feeling happy," whether the
table is at Noma or the humble home of a friend.
Gopnik writes with an easy cultural fluency; his sentences are roomy and
comfortable, but agile. He alternates between chapters with definite shape and
momentum, with specific centers of gravity, and chapters that chew on ideas, a
ruminant grazing in a field of culinary philosophy.
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Simple Pleasures by Henry Homesweet