Should we ditch the idea of three meals a day? (opens in new tab)  🏭Industrial History  Content type: News

Our rigid eating habits date to the Industrial Revolution – it’s time to embrace culinary spontaneity‘One of the stupidest things in an earnest but stupid school of culinary thought is that each of the three daily meals should be ‘balanced’.” So argues American food writer MFK Fisher in her 1942 book How to Cook a Wolf. She goes on: “In the first place not all people need or want three meals each day. Many of them feel better with two or one and one-half, or five.”Fisher wrote her book ostens...