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[ad_1] The company we keep during mealtimes has also been explored by anthropologists. Maurice Bloch famously quipped: “In all societies, sharing food is a way of establishing closeness, while, conversely, the refusal to share is one of the clearest marks of distance.” It is easy to observe this in our own lives. We prefer to eat with friends rather than strangers. It is possible to sit too closely to people we don’t know and sometimes…