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  1. Convivium: When in Rome …
    • The Greek inheritance
    • The age of Apicius
    • Cena and convivium
    • Public and imperial banquets
    • Disintegration and survival
  2. Interlude: Fast and Feast
    • Cuisine: the silent centuries
    • The Christian table and the birth of manners
    • Feast as power
    • A reconciliation of opposites
  3. In the Eye of the Beholder
    • Cooks, cookery books and cuisine
    • The triumph of conspicuous consumption
    • Manners maketh man
    • Enter the entremets
  4. Renaissance Ritual
    • The refinement of cuisine
    • Pliny relived and the reinvention of the dining-room
    • Convivium revived
    • The Renaissance banquet
    • Feast into fantasy
    • The collation and banquet
    • Meals and the mystery of monarchy
  5. From Court to Cabinet
    • The triumph of illusion
    • A culinary revolution
    • Service à la française and tablescapes
    • The salle à manger and eating rooms
    • Manners into etiquette
    • Messieurs, au couvert du Roi!
    • Food and festival at Versailles
    • The quest for informality
  6. Dinner is Served
    • From revolution to the return of ritual
    • The century of Carême
    • The proliferation of the dining-room and shifting mealtimes
    • The dinner party
    • Service à la française to service à la russe
    • The ritual and etiquette of dinner
    • The way we live now
  • Postscript: The Eclipse of the Table?

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