Having read Jamie
Horwitz’s article, “Eating at the Edge,” it has been brought to my attention
how the American culture surrounding food has altered from an activity that is routinely
performed as a family to one that is now considered more of a burden or
obstacle that must be completed and overcome throughout the course of the day.
This is largely a result of the increasing growing number of restraint chains in
the fast food industry. This, by definition and by its name encourage people to
eat “on the run” and to avoid spending time to sit around a dinning room table
with a family and eat a proper meal. I can speak on behalf of my personal
experience with this shift as I have lived it through the course of my
childhood and adolescent life. When I was much younger between the ages of 5 to
12 My family would eat dinner together around our dinning room table every
night and it became a ritual. However as I grew older I recognized that we grew
increasingly apart and started to eat on our own terms.
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