Article: Moving back into dining room

Moving back into dining room

By MICHAEL WALSH

Sunday, August 17, 2003

When it comes to dinner in the dining room, time is definitely not on our side.

We complain incessantly about not having time to shop for groceries. Even with microwave ovens and precooked entrees, we lament the time it takes to prepare a meal. Except on rare occasions, we can't seem to find time for a sit-down dinner in our own homes.

Talk-show psychologists bemoan the disintegration of the American family, its members too overworked and overbooked to break bread together. Many kitchens have become serve-yourself cafeterias, the intersection where parents and children -- who also no longer have time for a meal at the ...

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