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… of Bourgeois Society, trans. Thomas Burger (Cambridge: the MIT Press, 1989), p. 40. The Social Practice of Turtle Dinners London’s menagerists were first and foremost animal merchants purchasing and selling exotic animals as living … to secure social relationship. Gentlemen attending the club used to eat turtle with sobriety in amiable fellowship. The dinner registers of the Royal Society’s dining club attest the importance of turtle in socialising. The donation of a … the form of a turtle. According to Georgian polite table etiquette, the serving of turtle soup at the beginning of the dinner was a ‘conversation starter and distraction between the first soup course and the second more substantial course’ …
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