21.   Growing up in Miami, the son of Cuban immigrants, Rodriguez cannot remember a family meal without plantains.

22.   In a perfect world, people who cook family meals like zucchini with penne would have time to make everything from scratch, including pepper basil sauce.

23.   In many households, the family meal has become an anachronism.

24.   Is the family meal enhanced by a beeper?

25.   It might be just Christmas cards, or preparing family meals, or attending office parties, or giving too many gifts.

26.   It may be impossible to have a family meal every night.

27.   Josie McPherson knows how unusual the family meal is.

28.   Now, I make gravlax inexpensively, with almost no effort, and in quantities suitable for a single dinner party or a couple of family meals and snacks.

29.   People intoned it during family meals and business discussions.

30.   Public school food service operators were a little dubious that some of the dishes would work in large-scale production, but they would be suitable for family meals.