The dining room, with the dining table at its center, didn't catch on in America before the late 1700s. These rooms — and the family meals held in them — became a place to cultivate social values.

Dinner in middle-class homes has always been a mirror of the times — sometimes decadent and hearty, other times cheap and ...

Almost half of the respondents believe having a family dinner together is an “important way to connect” over a meal (49%), a way to make memories (46%), to continue family traditions (45%) and ...

The dining room, with the dining table at its center, began to be incorporated into wealthy homes across the country, eventually trickling down to the middle class. From the mid-19th century onward, ...