The Rituals of Dinner: The Origins, Evolution, Eccentricities and Meaning of Table Manners - Tapa blanda

Visser, Margaret

 
9780241293645: The Rituals of Dinner: The Origins, Evolution, Eccentricities and Meaning of Table Manners
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ISBN 10: 0241293642 ISBN 13: 9780241293645
Editorial: Penguin, 2017

Sinopsis

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 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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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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Editorial
Penguin
Año de publicación
2017
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0241293642
ISBN 13 
9780241293645
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Número de páginas
480
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9780140170795: The Rituals of Dinner: Visser, Margaret

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ISBN 10:  0140170790 ISBN 13:  9780140170795
Editorial: Penguin Publishing Group, 1992
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