The rituals of dinner

the origins, evolution, eccentricities, and meaning of table manners

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Margaret Visser: The rituals of dinner (1992, HarperPerennial)

432 pages

English language

Published July 27, 1992 by HarperPerennial.

ISBN:
978-0-00-637909-6
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OCLC Number:
26054649

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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.

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Subjects

  • Table etiquette.
  • Table etiquette -- History.