Today we eat on the go, at our desks and even in front of computers. We eat takeout, delivered and packaged meals.【小题1】

“Over the past three decades, people have started eating out more than ever before and purchasing more prepared foods at the grocery store, which tend to contain more fat, salt and sugar than their home-made foods,” noted US healthy living website Spark People.

【小题2】It encourages us to value the time we spend preparing, sharing and consuming food, as a recent USA Today article put it.It all started in 486 with the efforts of Slow Food’s founding father, Italian activist Carlo Petrini, who wanted to bring back food varieties and flavors that had gone dark in the face of industrialization.【小题3】Now his idea is almost the mainstream.

Starting at the table,the movement promotes an unhurried way of life founded on the idea that everyone has a right to cooking pleasure,and that everyone must also take responsibility to “protect the heritage(遗产)of food, tradition and culture that make this celebration of the senses possible”, wrote The Phnom Penh Post.

“【小题4】It means turning down the speed at which we eat and increasing the amount of time we spend dining together with other people,” Althea Zanecosky, spokeswoman for the American Dietetic Association, told The Huf fington Post. “【小题5】Dinner table conversations keep families together,” noted the Belgian non-profit organization Greenfudge.