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“The way you behave in a restaurant is the way you behave in life.” Ever since I heard that statement from a pal years in the past, I’ve puzzled why it hasn’t change into a extra frequent aphorism. Eating out could be a possibility to see an individual at their hungriest, their showiest, their most human. Do they yell at wait workers? Do they tip nicely? After which come the questions of food-sharing and chewing etiquette.
Many of those quandaries come up in Curb Your Enthusiasm, a present with a singular concentrate on the drama that may unfold when folks be part of collectively to eat. Eating places are “the best petri dish for [Larry David’s] social experiments, which have all the things to do with how folks ought to conduct themselves in a shared world,” Mac Schwerin writes in a brand new essay. “Mockingly, the meals itself is never addressed.”
Right now’s e-newsletter is a group of Atlantic articles about eating which can be much less about meals than concerning the folks consuming it.
On Eating Out
The On a regular basis Indignity of Eating Out
By Mac Schwerin
On Curb Your Enthusiasm, something can occur when Larry David walks right into a restaurant.
What House Cooking Does That Eating places Can’t
By Reem Kassis
After we eat, the social context issues maybe much more than the meals.
Do Your self a Favor and Go Discover a ‘Third Place’
By Allie Conti
We’d like bodily areas for serendipitous, productivity-free dialog.
Nonetheless Curious?
Different Diversions
P.S.
Know-how and the coronavirus pandemic have reworked the which means of gratuity, my colleague Charlie Warzel wrote final yr: “The brand new tipping tradition is complicated at finest.”
— Isabel
