The Rituals of Dinner: The Origins, Evolution, Eccentricities And Meaning of Table Manners by Margaret Visser

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  • ISBN 10 0140469435
  • ISBN 13 9780140469431
  • Published Oct 28 1993
  • Format Paperback
  • Page Count 448
  • Language English
  • Countries United Kingdom
  • Publisher Penguin Books Ltd

Publishers Text

This is an exploration of our eating rituals - how we invite and seat people, how, and how much, we serve them, what we eat with and how the guests depart. Forks, which took eight centuries to become common utensils beside the plate, which itself began as a four-day-old slice of bread, provide a fascinating example of the evolution of social propriety.

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