{"id":3485,"date":"2012-07-08T15:00:28","date_gmt":"2012-07-08T22:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/07\/and-on-the-eighth-day-man-created-lunch\/"},"modified":"2012-07-11T15:27:11","modified_gmt":"2012-07-11T22:27:11","slug":"and-on-the-eighth-day-man-created-lunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2012\/07\/08\/and-on-the-eighth-day-man-created-lunch\/","title":{"rendered":"“And on the Eighth Day, Man Created Lunch.”"},"content":{"rendered":"

from edible geography<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Lunch: An Urban Invention<\/h1>\n

By\u00a0NICOLA<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Lunch may be the second meal of the day today, but it was the last of the three daily meals to rise above its snack origins to achieve that status.<\/p>\n

As late as 1755, according to\u00a0Samuel Johnson\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0definition, lunch was simply \u201cas much food as one\u2019s hand can hold\u201d \u2014 which, as Laura Shapiro, culinary historian and co-curator of the New York Public Library\u2019s new\u00a0Lunch Hour NYC<\/a>\u00a0exhibition, recently explained to me, \u201cmeans that it\u2019s still sort of a snack that you can have at any time of the day.\u201d<\/p>\n

And it wasn\u2019t until later still \u2014 around 1850 \u2014 that lunch became a regular fixture between breakfast and dinner, added Rebecca Federman, the exhibition\u2019s co-curator, Culinary Collections Librarian at the NYPL, author of\u00a0Cooked Books<\/a>, and a star panelist at Foodprint NYC<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Finally, by the turn of the century, \u201clunch was taking place between 12 and 2, more or less,\u201d concludes Shapiro. It was a real meal at last, with a time associated with it, and particular foods and places assigned to it.<\/p>\n

[ click to continue reading at ediblegeography.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

from edible geography Lunch: An Urban Invention By\u00a0NICOLA Lunch may be the second meal of the day today, but it was the last of the three daily meals to rise above its snack origins to achieve that status. As late as 1755, according to\u00a0Samuel Johnson\u2019s\u00a0definition, lunch was simply \u201cas much food as one\u2019s hand can […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}