Why We Eat Together
Human food rituals are unique to our species.
by Isabel Fattal
Nov 19, 2022
1 minute
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For human beings, a meal in in 2015, “Even where a lonely diner picks sweets out of a bag with bare fingers, a rudimentary ritual exists, a moment of pleasure, no matter how ambiguous or guilty.”
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