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family meal  

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  • “The family meal” conjures an image readily recognizable in the West of a man, a woman, and two or three children seated around a table to eat. It is an image kept alive by steady coverage in the mass media over the second half of the twentieth century. [Source: Encyclopedia of Consumer Culture; Family Meal]

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