The Mind Creative DECEMBER 2014 | Page 43

The Mind Creative Bennet Cerf once wrote “Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup.” In today’s world where eating habits are as diverse as the people that inhabit it, Cerf might be proven wrong more often than the reader might imagine. The business of food and foodies encompasses much more than just ingesting food; it treads on customs, rituals, traditions and habits. Across the world, one comes across many food practices that might be considered strange and even bizarre by us because these practices drift away from the common norms and methods of eating; and what can pass as polite manners in one part of the wor