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