Joe Hernandez
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630 appearances
84 recordings
3 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard 28 Aug
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I talked to a
Hannah Garth about this.
She's a Princeton University anthropology professor who does research on food access, specifically in Los Angeles.
But there's also a social benefit here.
Restaurants are what's known as a third space, which is an area outside of our home or where we work, where we interact with other people.
And those casual interactions with strangers, with acquaintances, they can actually boost our mental health a little bit.
Yeah.
And just even small talk with a stranger or talking with your waiter or turning to the table next to you and asking them how the dessert was.
You know, those kinds of small interactions can just make us feel better and make us feel like part of a community.
So the first tip that I heard from multiple experts is think about why you want to eat out in the first place.
That's what Kimberly Palmer of NerdWallet told me.
Are you going to try like a buzzy new restaurant or are you just out to socialize with your friends or your family members?
Because if it's just to socialize, you get some more flexibility in choosing how you eventually decide to eat out.
And your decision might be to not go out at all.
Kimberly says she sometimes just orders catering trays from a favorite local spot and has people over to her house.
And then any leftovers that come from that, she just has for lunch the next day.
But if you are going to go out, she and others say first figure out that why, what you want to get out of the experience, and then give yourself a budget.
Not exactly.
I mean, I think it's going to be different for everybody, but there are some strategies for how you could think about it.
So one is to look back at your past spending habits and see how much you've been spending on food outside of your home.
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