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The rituals of dinner
by Margaret Visser
First Published
1991
Subjects
Food habits
Histoire
History
Savoir-vivre
Table
Table etiquette
Tafelmanieren
Eating customs
Ess- und Trinksitte
Geschichte
Tischmanieren
Etiquette
New York Times reviewed
Eetgewoonten
Dinners and dining
Manners and customs
Food
Social aspects
Description
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.