| Description |
xiii, 432 pages ; 21 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction -- 1. Behaving -- The artificial cannibal -- Ritual -- Feasting and sacrifice -- 2. Learning to behave -- Bringing children up -- Inhibitions -- Aspirations -- 3. The pleasure of your company -- Company -- Hosts and guests -- Invitations -- Coming right in -- Taking our places -- 4. Dinner is served -- The first bite -- Taking note of our surroundings -- The prospect before us -- Fingers -- Chopsticks -- Knives, forks, spoons -- Sequence -- Helpings -- Carving -- The red, the white, and the gold -- Table talk -- Feeding, feasts and females -- All gone -- 5. No offence -- Pollution -- The rules and regulations of the mouth -- The proprieties of posture and demeanor -- Postscript: How rude are we? |
| Summary |
Explores the history of eating rituals and table etiquette |
| Analysis |
Table etiquette |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-416) and index |
| Subject |
Manners and customs.
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Table etiquette -- History.
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Table etiquette.
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| LC no. |
90027181 |
| ISBN |
0140170790 (paperback) |
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0802111165 (hbk.) |
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9780140170795 |
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