How We Eat When No One is Looking

In many areas, we're far weirder than we let on in public. For example, consider the business of eating: there's such a difference between how we do it with, and without, onlookers.

We know, privately, that on our own we are far weirder, greedier and more imaginative than when we’re witnessed. But it’s a lonely, guilty knowledge. Because the cookery pages keep on pushing a different vision of what we’re like: that the norm is to be smart but casual, and to rustle up well-organized, carefully nutritious meals for one.

But that’s not normal at all, as we’re coming to realize, in part thanks to insights afforded us by new websites...

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