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Wednesday, August 04, 2004, 08:31

The perils of desktop dining - More people are eating while they work

The Baltimore Sun

Americans now eat at their desks to save time, save money, be more productive. Desktop dining and the shrinking lunch break - few people take a full hour anymore - have, in fact, become major trends. "When Mozart was writing his concertos, it wasn't done while he was reading The Wall Street Journal," says Sidney Mintz, 82, a retired professor of anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. Current eating trends, he says - combining quick and easily prepared meals with other activities to save time - reflect distaste for food and food rituals. >>continue


READ ALSO
Om Sidney Mintz' book "Tasting Food, Tasting Freedom: Excursions into Eating, Culture, and the Past" (amazon.com)

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