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Subject: Re: Eating Algorithms - (nf)
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ucbcad!max    Dec 11 03:31:00 1983

The question of fork-knife ritual doesn't arise, of course, in many
older cultures of the "far East" (actually to the west of many of
us). Cutting up food is done in the kitchen, not on the table; the
diner's equipment (chopsticks and so on) can be elegantly simple, since
food is served in bite-sized form.

I understand that the Chinese sport the most elaborate national cuisine
in the world (some twenty thousand distinct dishes). And all despite
(or perhaps because of) the lack of knives and forks at the table!

	Max Hauser