Eat Together
Novelty. It is “something new or unusual”, something that breaks into our routine and adds new perspective or shines a light on an aspect of something we have never seen before. This is the best way to describe how I feel about this video . What’s novel about eating a meal? Nothing. It is something we do about 21 times a week, breakfast, lunch, and dinner. We eat to live. Sometimes, we may eat to experience new cultures and flavors when we want to go the novel route. But eventually, this novelty can become commonplace, revealing that we essentially must eat to survive. And this is where the novelty of this beautiful video comes in. These people are eating to live, eating to experience, and eating to enjoy, as we all do. But the aspect that changes everything about this meal, that brings to life this routine practice, is… …the people. The people they share the meal with that were previously only neighbors by proximity. The people that have very different cultural, ethnic, and generation