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Article: Moving back into dining room
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- August 17, 2003
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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 ...