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In our fast-paced, fast-food culture, everyone seems to be eating alone—all the time. Americans report that they eat nearly 50 percent of their meals alone, while more than 60 percent of office workers typically have lunch at their desks—a phenomenon so prevalent it has earned a catchy moniker: desktop dining. So why do I claim that No One Eats Alone?
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The Hartman Group. 2012. “Eating Alone: The Food Marketer’s Hidden Opportunity,” Hartbeat News, October 17, http://www.hartman-group.com/hartbeat/446/eating-alone-the-food-marketer-s-hidden-opportunity.
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Wollan, Malia. 2016. “Failure to Lunch: The Lamentable Rise of Desktop Dining,” New York Times Magazine, February 25, http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/28/magazine/failure-to-lunch.html?_r=0.
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As some of the topics discussed in this book are sensitive, I promised respondents anonymity in order to encourage forthright conversations, so pseudonyms are used when individuals are quoted.
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Carolan, M.S. (2017). Introduction: Changing the Foodscape. In: No One Eats Alone. Island Press, Washington, DC. https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-806-0_1
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