14 Apr 2025

The origins of breakfast, lunch and dinner

From Nights, 9:35 pm on 14 April 2025

This week for our science feature, we're getting a bit anthropological.

Breakfast, lunch, and dinner: we take for granted the idea that we're supposed to eat three meals a day. But these habits are actually quite recent. Nights is going on a journey through human history to find out what our meal habits can tell us about life on earth.

Rob Richardson, the co-director of the Centre for Critical Food Studies, joins Maggie Tweedie.

14969115 - delicious breakfast with eggs benedict, bacon, orange juice and coffee

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