thing meaningful about people, to themselves and others, in often open-ended processes of social identification, that are at the heart of ethnic, national, class, gender, sexual, local and other identities.”(12) Food and drinks consumption is also a very social act, usually done within the family unit, with friends, or with other close people. The “rituality” of food made possible the formation of many other cultural rituals and activities that wouldn’t have existed without it.
12. T. M. Wilson, Food, drink and identity in Europe, Rodopi, Amsterdam 2006, p. 12
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