The Rituals of Dinner
The Origins, Evolution, Eccentricities and Meaning of Table Manners
$48.93
- Paperback
480 pages
- Release Date
20 March 2017
Summary
The award-winning classic reissued for its 25th anniversary, with a new introduction by Bee Wilson
This is the book 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 idi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241293645 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0241293642 |
| Author: | Margaret Visser |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 480 |
| Edition: | 25th |
| Release Date: | 20 March 2017 |
| Weight: | 330g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 29mm |
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Critics Review
Learned, fascinating and wide-ranging…one of those rare books that transforms your world while you are reading it… There is something quotable, interesting or alarming on every page
‘One of the most important books ever written about food…every time I turn to it I am struck by some fresh detail’ – Bee Wilson
Superlative… learned as anything: Visser quotes from Aeschylus, Rabelais, Erasmus, books of etiquette, P J O’Rourke – Robert Winder * Independent *
A wide-ranging reference book, useful to addicts of quizzes and etiquette…you will be both informed and entertained * Sunday Express *
About The Author
Margaret Visser
Margaret Visser writes on history, anthropology, and the mythology of everyday life. Her books, which include The Gift of Thanks, Much Depends on Dinner (which won a Glenfiddich Prize for the Food Book of the Year), The Way We Are, and The Geometry of Love, have all been bestsellers, and The Rituals of Dinner won 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.
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