Meals

On page 189 of in Defense of Food, Michael Pollan writes; "it is at the dinner table that we socialize and civilize our children, teaching them manners and the art of conversation. At the dinner table parents can determine portion sizes, model eating and drinking behavior, and enforce social norms about greed and gluttony and waste. Shared meals are about much more than fueling bodies; they are uniquely human institutions where our species developed language and this thing we call culture."

Why is it we need someone to write a book to tell us this stuff??