Eating at the Edge

Jamie Horwitz creats a new phrase to discuss the new trend in eating in America, that is “Eating at the age”, which “refers to occasions when food is an additive to a situation, such as a cigarette would be rather than being definitive.”  He writes that, in the modern time, the social function of eating is gradually decreasing.  People are more like to eat with TV, on the road, or even in their own time. On hand food is replacing the food that needs us to eat at a fixed place and a fixed time. It seems like people don’t treat eating as holy as before; they become a garniture of other activities. What horwiz writes is very common in the daily life. For example, on my own experience, I can hardly eat three meals before table with my friends in the custom meal time. Because of the class scheduler, my eating time can be very strange, like 10:00 am for brunch, 4:00 for dinner or no breakfast, 11:00 for lunch, and 5:00 for dinner.  Besides, eating on road is a very common situation for me, no matter in China or in America, the only thing which is different is that the food changes form noodles to hot dog. I always talk to myself it is not good for my health, but it still very hard to change. The situation is more overdraw when the final is coming. I still remembered when I was in China, where the study system is different from America. Generally, we have a week to review for the final exam, and don’t have regular class in that week. Everyone makes himself isolated to the word and try to use every minute to remember more things so that he can get a good mark on the final exam. So you can see that everyone eat and sleep at that his or she own scheduler.  Once, all of us four who live in the same dormitory did different thing at the same time. One was sleeping, one was eating her breakfast, one was just getting up, and the last one was eating her lunch, and problem is that the time was four o’clock afternoon. So I can really understand what Horwitz writes what will happened when “work was measured by the task rather than the clock” Maybe it is what the modern time brings us.