◦What distinguishes a formal, high-court dinner from an ordinary meal, besides quantity and variety of food? How do high-court manners differ from everyday ones?
There are many different courses in a high/royal meal, making it last several hours (rather than being served all at once and having the household/patrons help themselves, as in the lower classes)
Aside from the obvious manners, the host (or the royal guest) dictates what everyone else can do--you are not allowed to be seated until s/he has taken his/her place; and you do not begin eating until everyone has been served and the host/royal has taken the first bite of the course
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