The Long Lunch

Two hours at a table, the old way

Mediterranean common sense

One long unhurried lunch, with people you like or a book you love, phones face down and forgotten. Whole cultures organise their day around this and live noticeably well. Two hours at a table is a practice, whatever anyone says.

1. 1Book somewhere worth two hours
2. 2Phones stacked, face down, out of play
3. 3Order slowly, in courses if you can
4. 4Stay until conversation ends on its own