This is a study of some connections between eating-together and knowing-together. Silicon Valley technoscientific innovation typically involves a coming-together of entrepreneurs (having an idea) and venture capitalists (having private capital to turn the idea into commercial reality). Attention is directed here to a well-publicized type of face-to-face meeting that may occur early in relationships between VCs and entrepreneurs. The specific case treated here is a large number of breakfast meetings occurring over the past twenty-five years or so at a modest restaurant called Buck’s in Woodside, California. Why is it this restaurant? What is it about Buck’s that draws these people? What happens at these meals? And why is it breakfast (as opposed to other sorts of meals)? This article goes on to discuss historical changes in the patterns of daily meals and accompanying changes in the modes of interaction that happen at mealtimes. Breakfast at Buck’s may be a small thing, but its consideration is a way of understanding some quotidian processes of late modern innovation, and it offers a possible model for further inquiries into eating and knowing.

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巴克的早餐

这是对一起吃饭和一起认识之间的一些联系的研究。硅谷科技创新通常涉及企业家（有想法）和风险资本家（有私人资本将想法转化为商业现实）的聚集。这里的注意力集中在一种广为人知的面对面会议，这种会议可能发生在风投和企业家关系的早期。这里处理的具体案例是过去 25 年左右在加利福尼亚州伍德赛德一家名为 Buck's 的普通餐厅举行的大量早餐会议。为什么是这家餐厅？巴克的什么地方吸引了这些人？这些饭菜会发生什么？为什么是早餐（而不是其他种类的饭菜）？本文继续讨论日常进餐模式的历史变化以及进餐时间发生的交互方式的伴随变化。Buck's 的早餐可能是一件小事，但它的考虑是理解晚期现代创新的一些日常过程的一种方式，它为进一步探究饮食和认识提供了一个可能的模型。