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Dear me, Greger! I am sure that it tastes good, but its presentation is rather distressingly too much out of the Stone Age! That enormous bone that must be gnawed at!!

Surely everyone brought up in a well-appointed old-style Japanese house is struck by the sickroom, indeed, the operating room quality, of our table-settings----the shrouded table, the aseptic look of the dinnerware, the variety of surgical instruments for disecting and paring, for cutting a sinew or laying bare a bone. Floral offerings and lighted candles, far from enhancing the food, shift the mood from the convalescent stage to the lying-in-state. Our custom of lighting candles for our live dinner guests is disturbing to a Japanese.
---Rudofsky, The Kimono Mind