A meal can be thought of as a ritual and a work of art, with limits laid down, desires aroused and fulfilled, enticements, variety, patterning and plot. As in a work of art, not only the overall form, but also the details matter intensely.
We use eating as a medium for social relationships: satisfaction of the most individual of needs becomes a means of creating community. - Margaret Visser
We use eating as a medium for social relationships: satisfaction of the most individual of needs becomes a means of creating community.
- Margaret Visser
A meal can be thought of as a ritual and a work of art, with limits laid down, desires aroused and fulfilled, enticements, variety, patterning and pl… - Margaret Visser
A meal can be thought of as a ritual and a work of art, with limits laid down, desires aroused and fulfilled, enticements, variety, patterning and pl…
Eating is aggressive by nature, and the implements required for it could quickly become weapons; table manners are, most basically, a system of taboo… - Margaret Visser
Eating is aggressive by nature, and the implements required for it could quickly become weapons; table manners are, most basically, a system of taboo…
Salt is the only rock directly consumed by man. It corrodes but preserves, desiccates but is wrested from the water. It has fascinated man for thousa… - Margaret Visser
Salt is the only rock directly consumed by man. It corrodes but preserves, desiccates but is wrested from the water. It has fascinated man for thousa…
food is never just something to eat. - Margaret Visser
food is never just something to eat.
The extent to which we take everyday objects for granted is the precise extent to which they govern and inform our lives. - Margaret Visser
The extent to which we take everyday objects for granted is the precise extent to which they govern and inform our lives.
This is what is meant by "sacrifice", literally, the "making sacred" of an animal consumed for dinner. Yet sacrfice, because it dwells on the death, … - Margaret Visser
This is what is meant by "sacrifice", literally, the "making sacred" of an animal consumed for dinner. Yet sacrfice, because it dwells on the death, …
Food-what is chosen from the possibilities available, how it is presented, how it is eaten, with whom and when, and how much time is allotted to cook… - Margaret Visser
Food-what is chosen from the possibilities available, how it is presented, how it is eaten, with whom and when, and how much time is allotted to cook…
Our perception that we have 'no time' is one of the distinctive marks of modern Western culture. - Margaret Visser
Our perception that we have 'no time' is one of the distinctive marks of modern Western culture.
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