Shared Plates: How Eating Together Makes Us Human
We love eating dinner together with friends and extended family, and we miss it! But why does sharing a meal mean so much\u2014and can we ever recreate that on Zoom? As we wait for the dinner parties, cookouts, and potlucks of our post-pandemic future, join us as we explore the science and history of communal dining. Scientist Ayelet Fishbach shares how and why eating together makes us better able to work together, and evolutionary psychologist Robin Dunbar and archaeologist Brian Hayden demonstrate how it actually made us human\u2014and led to everything from the common cow to the pyramids. Plus we join food writers\xa0Nichola Fletcher\xa0and Samin Nosrat\xa0for the largest in-person banquet of all time, with Parisian waiters on bicycles, as well as the world\u2019s biggest online lasagna party.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices