I was on vacation over the Memorial Day weekend, so I apologize for not posting longreads on Friday or Tuesday. But we'll be back in full swing starting today.
A few months ago, I decided to take a different approach to lunch. Instead of eating a heavier meal in hopes of sustaining me through the day, I decided to simply eat an orange or an apple and grapple with some afternoon hunger. To many, this approach was completely ridiculous and defied everything about how we usually think of lunch. In light of that, I found this article to be revealing that our notions of lunch are not as longstanding as we've come to believe. As a recent exhibit at the New York Public Libraries demonstrated, the very definition of lunch has changed dramatically with urbanization and is a reminder of how meals and food become defined not by biology and hunger alone but by social and cultural context.
"Lunch: An Urban Invention" by Nicola Twilley
Published in Edible Geography, June 22, 2012
Eric
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ReplyDelete"We also have these wonderful posters that people would display when they were selling apples during the Depression. For some people, especially then, an apple was lunch."
ReplyDeleteYou could call your new diet the 'depression-era diet'
(also eating vegetarian would have been considered a depression-era diet too).