The Rituals of Dinner: The Origins, Evolution, Eccentricities and Meaning of Table Manners
Autor Margaret Visseren Limba Engleză Paperback – 2 feb 2017
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
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
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