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Miss Manners: What’s the most polite way to set a dinner table when one guest will not be eating any food?
GENTLE READER: Setting the table in full would be Miss Manners’ choice, to avoid forcing your friend to respond to others ...
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How Table Manners as We Know Them Were a Renaissance Invention
Despite the chaos and messiness of medieval mealtimes, some basic etiquette prevailed ... of the medieval period toward hygiene, table manners were not born in a vacuum. In Italy, the culture ...
Miss Manners: Just ask your dinner guest what they’d prefer
Dear Miss Manners: We have a longtime friend, and now neighbor, who cannot consume food orally due to extensive cancer ...
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Why table manners are important if we want to leave a good impression
This is one of the basic rules of table manners. You may ask, is table etiquette really important? I would definitely say yes. It’s not only about table manners; it shows your upbringing and ...
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Miss Manners: My table manners were called rude. What is a better way to correct someone?
DEAR MISS MANNERS: When I was in college, a friend’s family graciously opened their home to me for a couple of months while I worked a summer job near their home, which was an hour from my ...
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Miss Manners: What’s the proper thing to do when you drop food on the table?
DEAR MISS MANNERS: Whether at home, at another person’s house or in a restaurant, what does one do when food from one’s plate drops on the table? GENTLE READER: Although she is inclined to ...