This month on [Culinate](http://www.culinate.com/):

[Quality time: How important is family dinner, anyway?](http://www.culinate.com/read/bacon/family_dinner)

> “If I could wave a magic wand to make a dent in the substance-abuse problem, I would make sure that every child in America had dinner with his or her parents at least five times a week. There is no more important thing a parent can do,” states CASA president Joseph Califano in the introduction to the report. (If he had an actual magic wand, wouldn’t he use it to just get rid of drugs altogether? Just wondering.)

I tried to do for “family dinners prevent drug abuse” what Harold McGee did for “searing meat seals in the juices.” Please let me know how I did in the comments over at Culinate–especially if you disagree.