The Rituals of Dinner: The Origins, Evolution, Eccentricities And Meaning of Table Manners - Couverture rigide

Visser, Margaret

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0670847011 ISBN 13 : 9780670847013

Editeur : Viking, 1992

Synopsis

This is an exploration of our eating rituals - how we invite and seat people, how, and how much, we serve them, what we eat with and how the guests depart. Forks, which took eight centuries to become common utensils beside the plate, which itself began as a four-day-old slice of bread, provide a fascinating example of the evolution of social propriety.

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

MARGARET VISSER is an award-winning author and essayist. Her previous five books, all bestsellers, have met with international acclaim. Much Depends on Dinner won the Glenfiddich Prize for Food Book of the Year and was named one of the best books of the year by Publishers Weekly and The New York Times. The Rituals of Dinner won the IACP Literary Food Writing Award and the Jane Grigson Award, and was named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Her most recent book, The Geometry of Love, also the subject of a prize-winning documentary film, was a finalist for the Charles Taylor Prize. A professor of classics at York University for 18 years, she now devotes her time to research and writing. Visser lives in Toronto, Paris and the south of France.

Présentation de l'éditeur

WITH A NEW AFTERWORD

Winner of the IACP Literary Food Writing Award and the Jane Grigson Award

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year

Going beyond what we eat to consider how we eat it, Visser examines the origins, evolution and eccentricities of

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Viking
• Date d'édition: 1992
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0670847011
• ISBN 13: 9780670847013
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 448
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible