51.   The family ate breakfast and dinner together every day.

52.   The Miller family ate the vegetables they grew, along with lots of brown rice and tofu, but never meat.

53.   The rest of the time, Guevara said, the family eats beans and rice.

54.   The Vega family eats every Thanksgiving meal at the Golden Buddha restaurant in suburban Malden.

55.   Their families ate dinner together that week, have communicated through e-mails and will be reunited.

56.   These days, I feel a little sad whenever people tell me their mothers were poor cooks, or that their families never ate together.

57.   They were not out of cornmeal, though, because her family eats corn bread two or three times a week.

58.   Traditionally, mothers chose, prepared and served the foods their families ate.

59.   Upper-class families ate in dining rooms as far away from the kitchen as possible.

60.   Until I remembered how my brother always picked a chilled parfait cup of cubed gelatin dessert when our family ate at a cafeteria.