On the table, meat loaf.

NEWYORKER: Soldier��s Joy

The Wootens may have reached a new political consensus but families that like to argue about politics will still finds lots of meat on the table.

FORBES: Happy Halloween, Let's Think About Thanksgiving

"Even though I'm very comfortable materially now, my mindset is still that of somebody whose family didn't have enough money to put meat on the table, " says Sennett.

BBC: Magazine

This week, however, the Senate Agriculture Committee is scheduled to take up a piece of the farm bill that could mean more such specialty meat products, like those Reams produces, would be able to reach your table no matter where you live.

FORBES: Selling Sausage Across State Lines

Jung Sik Dang combines ingenuity and impeccable form, turning out dishes like a bowl of tomato jelly, basil sorbet and fresh vegetables, all mixed together at the table in a modern spin on bibimbap (a traditional dish of rice, vegetables, meat and chilli paste, which are stirred together right before eating).

BBC: Korean food goes high-end in Seoul

Sharp or blunt, table knives also meant forks, if for no other reason than that, once you stopped impaling your meat (not to mention tearing it up with your hands and teeth) and began cutting it on a plate, you needed a fork to anchor it while you sliced.

NEWYORKER: A Fork of One��s Own

My anxiety was not eased by the presence of steak knives with heavy wooden handles and sharp serrated blades, and a sort of diabolical trolley that was wheeled, steaming, to the table by a stout man with a pencil mustache who with the flourish of a gleaming knife indicated the meat and demanded to know where I wanted it carved.

NPR: Excerpt: 'Trauma'