This is an exploration of our eating rituals - how we invite and seat people, how, and how much, we serve them, what we eat with and how the guests depart. Forks, which took eight centuries to become common utensils beside the plate, which itself began as a four-day-old slice of bread, provide a fascinating example of the evolution of social propriety.
- ISBN10 0670847011
- ISBN13 9780670847013
- Publish Date 3 September 1992
- Publish Status Unknown
- Out of Print 13 January 1994
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
- Imprint Viking
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 448
- Language English