The rituals of dinner
Table etiquette
Eating customs
Savoir-vivre
Dinners and dining
Etiquette
Food habits
Food
Geschichte
Manners and customs
Social aspects
New York Times reviewed
History
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…
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