Shared Plates: How Eating Together Makes Us Human

We love eating dinner together with friends and extended family,
and we miss it! But why does sharing a meal mean so much—and can we
ever recreate that on Zoom? As we wait for the dinner parties,
cookouts, and potlucks of our post-pandemic future, join us as we
explore the science and history of communal dining. Scientist
Ayelet Fishbach shares how and why eating together makes us better
able to work together, and evolutionary psychologist Robin Dunbar
and archaeologist Brian Hayden demonstrate how it actually made us
human—and led to everything from the common cow to the pyramids.
Plus we join food writers Nichola Fletcher and Samin
Nosrat for the largest in-person banquet of all time, with
Parisian waiters on bicycles, as well as the world’s biggest online
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