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Why food tastes better in a bowl than on a plate

October 29, 2018

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Everyone used to eat from plates, but now both at home and in restaurants, food is increasingly served in bowls. The journalists of the Quartzy edition figured out the reasons.

A Brief History of Bowls

“In most national cuisines, bowls are the main utensils for eating,” says Matthew Weingarten, culinary director of the Dig Inn restaurant chain, which specializes in serving dishes. “For me, they are associated with a feeling of comfort and satiety. Probably so it seems to many of our visitors. But this is a relatively new way of looking at food.”

In 20th century America, dinner tables were dominated by plates: one each for bread, salad, main course, and dessert. Many middle-class families had two sets of dishes: for every day and for special occasions. From the bowls they ate only porridge for breakfast or soup.

“The use of multiple plates, as well as highly specialized cutlery like fish knives, reflected a traditional desire not to mix food,” says food historian Helen Zoe Veit. “Eating from bowls was considered unfashionable for most of the 20th century. ”

How we eat reflects what we eat. In mass Western culture, it has traditionally been some source of protein with a side dish, salad, and bread. “Such a sharp separation of components was considered a sign of manners, education and status,” Veit continues.

Plates with separate slides of food were a symbol of American identity and wealth, one of the blessings of capitalism and the growing middle class. Bowls were associated with poverty. The change began in the 1960s, when bowls became part of the bohemian lifestyle and dishes in bowls became symbols of the Cultural Revolution.

Bowls are convenient because you can eat almost anything from them.

Soups, noodles, dumplings are eaten from deep bowls out of necessity. But recently they have begun to serve dishes that are no less tasty on the plate. There were many varieties of so-called bowls (from the English bowl - a bowl): a bowl with cereals, a buddha bowl, a burrito bowl.

These dishes are based on whole grains, fresh and cooked vegetables, herbs and a variety of sauces. Smoothie bowls and granola with yogurt, fruit, nuts and other trendy ingredients like acai berries, hemp seeds and chia have become popular for breakfast.

Cereal bowls are the staple of many fast food restaurants. They are convenient in that the composition can be changed depending on seasonal vegetables. Visitors can combine the ingredients as they wish. This makes them easy to make at home too: you don’t have to follow complicated instructions, you can use leftovers from other dishes, and most importantly, eat more vegetables.

It's no surprise that bowls have become so popular in the era of obsession with healthy eating.

Food from a bowl evokes pleasant emotions

Dishes affect how we perceive food. “When we sit down to eat, certain expectations are formed in the brain about what food will taste like and how much we will like it,” says Charles Spence, professor of experimental psychology at the University of Oxford. “Lighting, music, cutlery all contribute, more than we think. ”

When we see a bowl, we look forward to rich, satisfying and healthy food.

“We feel the weight of the bowl in our hands and think the food will be more nutritious. Most likely, we will find it more flavorful than the same food on the plate, ”explains Spence.

Eating from a bowl has an intimacy that plates lack. This partly explains the attractiveness of such dishes. According to Weingarten, food on a plate that needs to be cut with a knife and fork looks very formal, strict. And we bring the bowl closer to us. This makes it possible to truly enjoy the food and immerse yourself in the process. Today, many people seek comfort in eating, and bowls give that feeling.

They are not only pleasant to hold, they are also very beautiful. According to the chef and author of books about vegetarian cuisine Lukas Volger (Lukas Volger), their popularity is also associated with the "Instagram * fication" of food. With the growing demand for such dishes, there has been a renewed interest in handmade pottery. Bowls have become part of the visual experience of eating.

In addition, when we eat from a bowl, the world looks friendlier to us. This is because we hold the bowl in our hands and feel its warmth. And according to one study, ^{Experiencing Physical Warmth Promotes Interpersonal Warmth, when we have something warm in our hands, everything around us seems to be better.}

If bowls became a culinary symbol of social revolution in America in the 1960s, today they are a positive statement about oneself. When we eat from a bowl, we feel better about ourselves.

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