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.

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

שנה

1991

שפה

English

הוצאה

Penguin (Non-Classics)

מהדורות

7

עמודים

448

ISBN

9780140170795

מקור הנתונים: Wikidata