The rituals of dinner

This book is a commentary on the manifold meanings of the rituals of dinner; it is about how we eat, and why we eat as we do. We insist on special places and times for eating, on specific equipment, on stylized decoration, on predictable sequence among the foods eaten, on limitation of movement, and on bodily propriety. In other words, we turn the consumption of food, a biological necessity, into a carefully cultured phenomenon. - Introduction.

First sentence: Table manners are as old as human society itself, the reason being that no human society can exist without them.

Year

1991

Language

English

Publisher

Penguin (Non-Classics)

Editions

7

Pages

448

ISBN

9780140170795

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