Eat Eat Hurrah: BON TON

Eat Eat Hurrah opens here with a purposely non academic space to elaborate, with all of you, on the immensely wide subject of good manners. Time by time we shall be discussing some “old fashioned” advice along with new ideas, modified by yours and our experiences. What we want to avoid, however, is imposing set rules. Instead, we wish to offer ideas as “experiments” in the art of receiving, in order to surprise your guests with completely new and different “finds” which, rather than being mere imitations themselves, are to be imitated or, in any case, to become fashionable, yours and yours alone, along with ways of entertaining guests with simple formality.
Internet allows a continual comparison with what is happening and is transforming the entire world of good manners, allowing the circulation of ideas and suggestions, behavior in which we can instantly realize a change, a new trend, a new point of reference with which we can compare ourselvesor compare our own culture and the very sensitivity of our guests.


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The pleasure of receiving



The pleasure, the refinement, the simple and elegant manner of hosting, or of being hosted, cannot and will never ever be that which may be set into unchangeable and generalized rules. Being oneself and offering simple hospitality is the best advice we can give, behavior which can never be defined as vulgar. Disharmony or, worse yet, vain ambitions always breed vulgarity. The only real English Duke I’ve ever known used to receive his guests on his “three masted” sailing ship with brown sails and a Malay crew in puffed sleeved shirts.. He always wore a yellow silk shirt, full of various sized brown stains, and seemed to be in a constant state of drunkenness. His bare feet were so dirty they seemed to cry out for a good shower. Nevertheless, even though his dining table would be set with very old and chipped glasses and plates, the entire scene reeked of refined elegance and style. There is not one of us who could ever imitate it and, if we dared try, even with our best friends, it would just be a cause for embarrassment, or perhaps worse