Playing with your food
Sonja Stummerer and Martin Hablesreiter, Honey & Bunny
Food is a prerequisite for life itself. If we neglected to eat, we would die. Yet quite apart from the purely physiological role of food in maintaining our bodily functions, eating also plays an important role in our cultural and social self-perception. As such, it is hardly surprising that a whole plethora of rules, traditions and rituals have sprung up around how we as a society consume food. Societies that lay claim to being civilised are especially proud of their table manners and set great store by the utensils that they use to cut up food and insert it into their mouths.
