... Whether it is eatingNew Year’s dumplings in China, folding tamales with friends in Mexico orgoing out to a famous Michelin-starred restaurant in France, understand-ing these food traditions ... standardof living of the masses (then, as now, a crucial research theme). Some-time during the 1990s, I started to gain interest in cultural aspects of eat-ing and drinking, realizing that food is ... hunger, skyrocketing prices, death, rising inequality. 1919 Eight-hour workday is instituted. Vandervelde Bill se-verely limits the selling of gin in public places.28 Food Culture in Belgium...