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...sometimes even whole rooms that separate them from others. But lately, whether out of a modern need for community or an ancient urge to break bread in company, sharing dining space with strangers is appealing to a growing number of diners at all levels of the food chain. "I eat so many meals rushed, in front of the TV," says James Wheeler, 28. "It's sometimes nice to share a meal with people." Even if they are people he has never met before. Wheeler can often be found on Sundays swapping pots of jam with neighbors at the wooden farm...
...tradition of paying to eat a meal at a table alongside strangers can be traced, as so many other dining customs can be, to 18th century France. A 1786 decree ordered caterers, who once fed the nobility in their palaces, to serve all customers in shops. The shared tables in these restaurants were celebrated as social equalizers. Across Europe, community dining has remained a key element of bistros, beer halls and tapas bars. "It's a very European thing," says Vincenzo Lauria, assistant professor of table service at the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, N.Y., and a native...
...then there is the British palate. Despite the excitement generated by its launch, nobody's expecting Whole Foods to transform the way Britons eat. "It's quite an experience - I'm going to come back when I want to indulge in healthy food and salads," said Lucy, a 23-year-old stylist visiting Whole Foods for the first time. "But I still like...
...burger franchises should rethink their reluctance, because the food in Ratatouille looks real enough to eat, and to savor. Credit this to Sharon Calahan, director of photography (lighting). "I knew we'd need a bigger toolkit to pull off food," says this artist-technician. "Wet grapes and dry grapes have different kinds of translucencies. Liquids and sauces are hard. Bread was a big challenge because of its porous nature...
...Punishing office and school schedules make a home-cooked meal a fantasy for most Japanese families during the week. The pre-cooked convenience store food that usually substitutes at home is a nutritionally inferior substitute, and those dinners on the run promote what Iwamura calls "selfish eating," with each family member consuming alone, rather than together at the dining table. With mothers increasingly working outside the home - and with family size shrinking, as young people hold off on marriage - there's even less reason to eat a healthy Japanese meal at home. "People aren't interested in eating well," says...