The Hungry Soul: Eating and the Perfecting of Our NatureFree Press, 1994 - 248 pagini What is the full meaning of eating? What does it reveal about the soul? What is the meaning of human omnivorousness and the myriad customs that refine human eating, transforming animal feeding into human dining? This book examines the phenomena of eating, natural and cultural - from metabolism, appetite, and taste, to hospitality, table manners, and the ritual meal, and reveals how eating not only feeds the body but also nourishes the soul. |
Din interiorul cărții
Rezultatele 1 - 3 din 46
Pagina 139
... manners of civility . A quick corrective for our ignorance on these points is available in early books on manners , whose reading show us both how much we have taken instruction and how much we needed it . Perhaps the most famous and ...
... manners of civility . A quick corrective for our ignorance on these points is available in early books on manners , whose reading show us both how much we have taken instruction and how much we needed it . Perhaps the most famous and ...
Pagina 152
... manners show consideration for the comfort and pleasure of one's fellow diners . Slovenly and noisy eat- ing are annoying ; greasy chins and filthy hands are painful to see ; belching and spitting are revolting ; obscene speech and ...
... manners show consideration for the comfort and pleasure of one's fellow diners . Slovenly and noisy eat- ing are annoying ; greasy chins and filthy hands are painful to see ; belching and spitting are revolting ; obscene speech and ...
Pagina 236
... Manners ( New York : Grove Weidenfeld , 1991 ) . 2. Brillat - Savarin , The Physiology of Taste , p . 132 . 3. Ibid . , pp . 132–133 . 4. Aristotle , Nicomachean Ethics , 1106b1-5 . 5. For a superb exploration of the history of this ...
... Manners ( New York : Grove Weidenfeld , 1991 ) . 2. Brillat - Savarin , The Physiology of Taste , p . 132 . 3. Ibid . , pp . 132–133 . 4. Aristotle , Nicomachean Ethics , 1106b1-5 . 5. For a superb exploration of the history of this ...
Alte ediții - Afișează-le pe toate
Termeni și expresii frecvente
activity appetite Aristotle awareness Babette Babette's feast become begin bodily body bread bread and salt Brillat-Savarin cannibalism carnivores cells Chapter chewing civilized common conversation creatures cultural customs Cyclops desire dietary laws dining dinner party distinction divine drink earth eater edible especially ethical example eyes fact feed flesh freedom fruit Genesis grace guests hand holy hospitality host human eating human form hunger Ibid incisors kind least Leo Strauss Leviticus liberality living form living things look man's manifest Margaret Visser material matter meal means meat metabolism mind moral motion mouth nature necessity neediness Nicomachean Ethics nourishing Odysseus omnivorousness one's organism ourselves philosophical pleasures Polyphemos possible powers present principle psychic question rational rational animal reason regarding relation salt self-conscious sense separation share sight social soul speak speech strangers taste tion tongue Torah transformation true unclean upright posture vegetarian virtue whole wine