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Imagining the Progressive Restaurant

By: Hugh Corcoran

In a country where so many people live increasingly lonely, bland, and digitised lives, food institutions can — and should — be bodies that place communal enjoyment before the whims of consumerism.

Tavern Interior Lluís Graner, between circa 1900 and circa 1928, Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya

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I would like to create a room. A room for when I feel heavy. When I must sit down and be restored. Yes, the food and all that, all that nonsense. Of course there is food, and there’s a glass of wine. But there is company. Good company cannot be bought; it can only be […]

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I would like to create a room. A room for when I feel heavy. When I must sit down and be restored. Yes, the food and all that, all that nonsense. Of course there is food, and there’s a glass of wine. But there is company. Good company cannot be bought; it can only be […]

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I would like to create a room. A room for when I feel heavy. When I must sit down and be restored. Yes, the food and all that, all that nonsense. Of course there is food, and there’s a glass of wine. But there is company. Good company cannot be bought; it can only be […]

I would like to create a room. A room for when I feel heavy. When I must sit down and be restored. Yes, the food and all that, all that nonsense. Of course there is food, and there’s a glass of wine. But there is company. Good company cannot be bought; it can only be […]

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