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.
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.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
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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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 Regulation of the Mouth The Proprieties of Posture and Demeanour Postscript: How Rude Are We? References Bibliography Index
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 Regulation of the Mouth The Proprieties of Posture and Demeanour Postscript: How Rude Are We? References Bibliography Index
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