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We hope you enjoy this preview of an episode from our back catalog available to our premium subscribers. Tonight, we\u2019ll read from \u201cFor Luncheon and Supper Guests\u201d written by Alice Bradley published in 1923. To unlock full episodes, ad-free listening, and more, please go to\xa0snoozecast.com/plus.\n\n\u201cLuncheon\u201d is the formal word for lunch, a light mid-day meal.\n\nIn the Middle Ages, before electric lighting and industrialization, the mid-day meal was large and considered dinner. There was no lunch, so later in the evening a lighter meal was had called \u201csupper\u201d.\n\nBut by the 1800s, the large meal of dinner was pushed into the evening and thus, not only was supper squeezed out, but there was a need for something to eat in between breakfast and dinner.\n\nUp until the early 1800s, luncheon was generally reserved for ladies, who would often have lunch with one another when their husbands were out. The meal was often made up of left-overs from the previous night's plentiful dinner. Beginning in the Victorian era, afternoon tea supplemented this luncheon at four o'clock.\n\n\u2014 read by 'V' \u2014\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices