How America Became Obese #2

Part 2 - Removing the Gatekeeper and the Rise of Snacking

This is a series of articles on one of my favorite topics. You can read Part 1 here.

In last Saturday’s piece, I explored how the devaluation of cooking, a seemingly innocent concession to modern notions of hyper-convenience, helped de-ritualize eating as a group affair and focus our minds as cultural actors on an aristocratic view of food as a panoply …