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    <body><![CDATA[More like 3.5. Fascinating anecdotes about food and etiquette from around the world -- just don't let the opening chapter on cannibalism put you off. ;)]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[why do we eat the way we do?  Margaret Visser's analysis of manners begins with the assumption, quite correct I think, that eating with others is a dangerous undertaking.  After all, everyone is armed with a knife.  Manners, born to tame the terror, become comforting and safe ritual.  I often though...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30983271">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is where I found out about exo- and endo- cannibals (one kind eats his enemies, the other kind eats his friends), and the French Fourteenths (did a dinner guest cancel leaving you with an unlucky thirteen guests?  Call up a Fourteenth!), and so much more great cocktail party fodder.  One of the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3689329">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Once one knows what one is eating, what is the next logical step? To examine how one eats.  That is the premise of this book, and although Visser's training may have been in Classics, she is really a cultural anthropologist.  Beginning with  cannabalism and forging ahead, she delineates why we use t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24733048">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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