(998) Il bon ton di Leonardo Da Vinci Qualche tempo fa came out in bookstores a text entitled " Kitchen Notes of Leonardo Da Vinci " where they collected some fake notes attributed to the culinary genius of the Renaissance. In addition to recipes, cooking techniques and disquisitions on the properties of various foods, there are tasty comments on table manners of the courts of the time. Here is a small handbook on what not to be done at the table where we quoted in bold, those that, despite the jokes, really well until the sound, though often with some modifications:
Improper behavior at the table of my Lord
These are the habits unbecoming of a guest at the table of my Lord should not have some, I have compiled the list had all the guests who have sitting at the table with my Lord in the past year:
- No visitor should sit on the table, and even with his back to the table, much less in the arms of some other host
- Nor should put your feet on the table (ibid.)
- No one should stay at the table for too long
- No visitor should rest his head on a plate
- No visitor should take the food from the plate the neighbor without first asking permission
- No visitor should make unpleasant half-chewed morsels in the plate by without first asking permission
- No visitor should wipe his knife on the tablecloth near
- Or use the knife to cut the table (ibid.)
- No visitor should clean the armor at the table
- No visitor should take the food from the table to hide it in your bag or in the boots, and then eat it (ibid.)
- No visitor should nip the fruit and then put it back in the bowl chewed (No visitor should touch the food buffet and place, especially if it is damaged by "palpated")
- No visitor should spit in front of him (ibid.)
- Not even close to him (ibid.)
- No visitor should nip or lick close (In public outpouring is better to avoid too much heat, thanks)
- No guest should pull up his nose or give nudges (Idem )
- No visitor should make roll their eyes or making faces scary (ibid.)
- No guest should get their noses in the conversation (ibid.)
- No visitor should make models, nor fires, nor tighten knots at the table (if they do not ask my Lord)
- No visitor should leave free his bird table
- and even snakes or cockroaches
- No visitor should play the lute, or any other instrument that could annoy his neighbor (if they do not ask my Lord) (No visitor should produce sounds annoying for the neighbors table with their phone-smartphone-console, etc.)
- No guest should sing or speak, or scream, or do puzzles as a rogue if there's a lady next to him
- No visitor should plot at the table (if they do not agree with my Lord) (Speeches gracious thanks)
- No visitor should make lewd allusions to the pages of my Lord, and even playing with their (Do not bother the waiter!)
- No guest should hit the servants (unless it is in self-defense) (ibid.)
- And if you must vomit, leaving the table
- Similarly, if to urinate.
thank this page for having avoided the need to hand-copy the whole list.
