Memorial Day weekend marks the unofficial start of summer, and with that comes the joy of outdoor dining. During the pandemic, eating outside at restaurants became a necessity due to guidelines con… ...

Where to eat, what to wear and what dishes to order, to make outdoor eating work in autumn. Afuera, 777’s dining space off George’s Street, Dublin . Corinna Hardgrave.

Diners sit as pedestrians make their way past an outdoor dining area of a restaurant on a street in Manhattan, New York on May 7, 2021. (Photo by Ed JONES / AFP) (Photo by ED JONES/AFP via Getty ...

This points to outdoor dining being safer, and the reason, according to Stephen S. Morse, a professor of epidemiology at Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health, is air circulation.

When England’s Food Standards Agency boss Susan Jebb recently compared eating cake at work to passive smoking, office cubicle walls across the land quivered.

Practicing mindful eating, for instance, connects us with the action of eating as a rich and important sensory and somatic experience, not merely a necessary survival task to ward off hunger.