- Convivium: When in Rome …
- The Greek inheritance
- The age of Apicius
- Cena and convivium
- Public and imperial banquets
- Disintegration and survival
- Interlude: Fast and Feast
- Cuisine: the silent centuries
- The Christian table and the birth of manners
- Feast as power
- A reconciliation of opposites
- In the Eye of the Beholder
- Cooks, cookery books and cuisine
- The triumph of conspicuous consumption
- Manners maketh man
- Enter the entremets
- 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
- 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
- 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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