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Customs and practices associated with dining and drink evolve over time and place. Food delivery and elaborate take-out meals were increasing in popularity even before the pandemic shut down restaurants. Diet styles like vegan, vegetarian, paleo, and zero-carb are becoming mainstream in certain parts of the country. Cocktails have become complex projects with as many as a dozen ingredients a major change from the simple highball, scotch and soda, and rum and Coke of the past. One widely enjoyed custom associated with dining and drink aperitivo originated in Italy several hundred years ago, and continues in various forms around the world today.