The CulinaryWoman Reading Room for Wednesday June 7

The role that restaurants play in happiness

In 1938, Harvard scientists have been tracking the health of 238 Crimson sophomores. They want to see how they had been affected, mentally and physically, by the Great Depression.

The study subsequently grew into the Harvard Study of Adult Development, one of the world’s longest running studies of adult well-being.

While 19 of the original subjects are …