When you think back on your childhood, what did dinnertime look like? Many of us might think back on meals eaten around the kitchen or dining room table in idyllic terms: good food, conversation and togetherness. While the reality might have been a little more nuanced, there was a time when the family meal was a pretty typical shared experience in America. But for many families - even just married couples - the experience of sitting down together over an uninterrupted meal is increasingly rare. Couples work different shifts, kids have nighttime activities and even the most well-meaning among us are sometimes interrupted at meal time by an urgent email or text message. The editors of the Taste of Home magazine would like you to reconsider the importance of the family meal in 2017. The Milwaukee-based company’s new cookbook, 100 Family Meals , is subtitled Bringing the Family Back to the Dinner Table. According to Mark Hagen, eating dinner together - whether it’s frozen chicken nuggets
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