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The Rituals of Dinner: The Origins, Evolution, Eccentricities and Meaning of Table Manners

Autor Margaret Visser
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 2 feb 2017
This isthebook 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, history, and humour, this is a feast of fact and observation on one of our most primal rituals: the meal.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780241293645
ISBN-10: 0241293642
Pagini: 480
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 29 mm
Greutate: 0.33 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Margaret Visserwrites on history, anthropology, and the mythology of everyday life. Her books, which includeThe Gift of Thanks, Much Depends on Dinner(which won a Glenfiddich Prize for the Food Book of the Year), The Way We Are, andThe Geometry of Love, have all been bestsellers, andThe Rituals of Dinnerwon the International Association of Culinary Professionals' Literary Food Writing Award and the Jane Grigson Award. A Professor of Classics for 18 years, she now lives in Toronto and the south of France.

Recenzii

'One of the most important books ever written about food...every time I turn to it I am struck by some fresh detail'
Superlative... learned as anything: Visser quotes from Aeschylus, Rabelais, Erasmus, books of etiquette, P J O'Rourke
A wide-ranging reference book, useful to addicts of quizzes and etiquette...you will be both informed and entertained