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The Rituals of Dinner: The Origins, Evolution, Eccentricities and Meaning of Table Manners
Margaret Visser
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Description for The Rituals of Dinner: The Origins, Evolution, Eccentricities and Meaning of Table Manners
Paperback. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFCV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 200 x 129 x 31. Weight in Grams: 334.
This is the book on the way we eat. Solidifying her standing as a preeminent observer and scholar of everyday life, Margaret Visser takes on the sweeping history of table manners, from the civilizations of ancient Greece and medieval Europe to the way that technology has altered, and continues to alter, our behaviour over dinner. She writes of everything from cultural idiosyncrasies around preparation and consumption, to the surprising origins of tableware - forks took eight centuries to become common utensils, the plate began as a four-day-old slice of bread. Blending folklore, ... Read more
This is the book on the way we eat. Solidifying her standing as a preeminent observer and scholar of everyday life, Margaret Visser takes on the sweeping history of table manners, from the civilizations of ancient Greece and medieval Europe to the way that technology has altered, and continues to alter, our behaviour over dinner. She writes of everything from cultural idiosyncrasies around preparation and consumption, to the surprising origins of tableware - forks took eight centuries to become common utensils, the plate began as a four-day-old slice of bread. Blending folklore, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
333g
Number of Pages
480
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780241293645
SKU
V9780241293645
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About Margaret Visser
Margaret Visser writes on history, anthropology, and the mythology of everyday life. Her books, which include The Gift of Thanks, Much Depends on Dinner (which won a Glenfiddich Prize for the Food Book of the Year), The Way We Are, and The Geometry of Love, have all been bestsellers, and The Rituals of Dinner won the International Association of Culinary ... Read more
Reviews for The Rituals of Dinner: The Origins, Evolution, Eccentricities and Meaning of Table Manners
A wide-ranging reference book, useful to addicts of quizzes and etiquette...you will be both informed and entertained
Sunday Express
Superlative... learned as anything: Visser quotes from Aeschylus, Rabelais, Erasmus, books of etiquette, P J O'Rourke
Robert Winder
Independent
'One of the most important books ever written about food...every time I turn to it I am ... Read more
Sunday Express
Superlative... learned as anything: Visser quotes from Aeschylus, Rabelais, Erasmus, books of etiquette, P J O'Rourke
Robert Winder
Independent
'One of the most important books ever written about food...every time I turn to it I am ... Read more