“And on the Eighth Day, Man Created Lunch.”

from edible geography
Lunch: An Urban Invention
By NICOLA

Lunch may be the second meal of the day today, but it was the last of the three daily meals to rise above its snack origins to achieve that status.
As late as 1755, according to Samuel Johnson’s definition, lunch was simply “as much food as one’s hand can hold” — which, as [...]