The rituals of dinner

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.

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