http://www.foodandthings.com/2007/10/culinary-history-gary-allens-overview-of-service/ Food Adventures Near and Far Wed, 10 Aug 2011 03:20:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.foodandthings.com/2007/10/culinary-history-gary-allens-overview-of-service/comment-page-1/#comment-23 Anonymous Tue, 09 Sep 2008 08:55:00 +0000 http://deanhua.wordpress.com/2007/10/02/culinary-history-gary-allens-overview-of-service/#comment-23 Amazing!! This is writing as it should be- fascinating, well-written and overflowing with little gems. Full marks from this foody. I grew up in a "proper" British middle-class environment transposed to Canada. All the "niceties" of table manners etc...I can identify so many of the customs mentioned here (and their recent cousins and surviving residues<br/>as having had a place at my childhood table that I am left incredulous. Amazing!! This is writing as it should be- fascinating, well-written and overflowing with little gems. Full marks from this foody. I grew up in a “proper” British middle-class environment transposed to Canada. All the “niceties” of table manners etc…I can identify so many of the customs mentioned here (and their recent cousins and surviving residues
as having had a place at my childhood table that I am left incredulous.

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