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Dining Out [1]

Fiction [2]
6.24.20

The New York Times’s recent “More Than a Meal” series featured essays by renowned writers about memorable meals experienced in restaurants at a time when reminiscing about dining out has been the restaurant goer’s solace. The meals described [3] range from Ruth Reichl writing about a fancy restaurant in Paris, to Samantha Irby writing about the Cheesecake Factory, to Alexander Chee writing about waiting tables at a Theater District restaurant in Manhattan. Write a scene that takes place in a restaurant. Is this the first time your character has dined out in a long time, or does she frequent this establishment every week? What is revealed about her personality or state of mind through her interactions with others in the restaurant?


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[1] https://www.pw.org/content/dining_out [2] https://www.pw.org/genre/fiction [3] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/06/16/dining/restaurant-closings-memories-coronavirus.html