Table manners are as old as human society itself, the reason being that no human society can exist without them.
An edition of The rituals of dinner
(1991)
The rituals of dinner
the origins, evolution, eccentricities, and meaning of table manners
1st HarperPerennial Canada ed.
by Margaret Visser
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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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The rituals of dinner: the origins, evolution, eccentricities, and meaning of table manners
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