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The Rituals of Dinner : Visser, Margaret
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The Rituals of Dinner : Visser, Margaret Paperback - 1992

by Visser, Margaret

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With an acute eye and an irrepressible wit, Margaret Visser takes a fascinating look at the way we eat our meals. From the ancient Greeks to modern yuppies, from cannibalism and the taking of the Eucharist to formal dinners and picnics, she thoroughly defines the eating ritual.

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  • Title The Rituals of Dinner : Visser, Margaret
  • Author Visser, Margaret
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 448
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Publishing Group, E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.
  • Date 1992-07-01
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 296520-20
  • ISBN 9780140170795 / 0140170790
  • Weight 0.93 lbs (0.42 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.27 x 5.51 x 1.16 in (21.01 x 14.00 x 2.95 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Dewey Decimal Code 395.54

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Summary

With an acute eye and an irrepressible wit, Margaret Visser takes a fascinating look at the way we eat our meals. From the ancient Greeks to modern yuppies, from cannibalism and the taking of the Eucharist to formal dinners and picnics, she thoroughly defines the eating ritual.

"Read this book. You'll never look at a table knife the same way again."—The New York Times.

First line

Table manners are as old as human society itself, the reason being that no human society can exist without them.

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Citations

  • Christianity Today, 09/01/2008, Page 91
  • Publishers Weekly, 05/25/1992, Page 0

About the author

Margaret Visser is a writer and broadcast with a particular interest in the mythology of everyday life. Her books include The Gift of Thanks, Much Depends on Dinner, The Rituals of Dinner, The Way We Are, and The Geometry of Love. Many of these have been bestsellers and have won major international awards, including the Glenfiddich Award for Foodbook of the Year in Britain in 1989, the International Association of Culinary Professionals' Literary Food Writing Award, and the Jane Grigson Award. Her Massey Lectures on CBC radio were later published as the bestselling book Beyond Fate. Visser's books have been translated into French, German, Dutch, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese. She frequently appears on radio and television, and has lectured extensively throughout North America, Europe, and Australia.