The rituals of dinner: the origins, evolution, eccentricities and meaning of table manners

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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.

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• The Way We Are di Margaret Visser (1997)
• The Rituals of Dinner: the Origins, Evolution, Eccentricities & Meaning of Table Manners di Margaret Visser (1992)
• Much depends on dinner: the extraordinary history and mythology, allure and obsessions, perils and taboos of an ordinary meal di Margaret Visser (1989)