The dinner etiquette - Everyone can set the table
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“How does it work? From the outside to the inside? And how should I eat these prawns without half of it falling off?” Don’t worry, you’re not alone. We’re all in the same boat. Who would still remember how to behave yourself at the table?! Well, with this book you’ll have an overview about the do’s and don’ts at the table.
First, we’ll give you a glimpse into the preparation. For example, do you know how to plan a menu for ten people? Also, ‘The dinner etiquette: Everyone can set the table’ has all the information about how to set the table. Setting it and decorating it are both equally important.
The category ‘The art of eating’ gives us answers to all the questions we’ve had flying around in our heads. There is a way to eat spaghetti without having tomato sauce all over you and well tell you how!
We’ll also explain what the prayer is all about and how kids should behave, as well as problems that lefties could encounter. Nobody should say that eating is easy! It’s the exact opposite, but with this book you’ll have the perfect helper and are guaranteed to make a fabulous impression!
In this sense – Bon appetite!
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The dinner etiquette - Everyone can set the table - Charlotte Reimsen
Table of Contents
Before everything began4
What to mind before your meal7
The perfect table9
Know how: The art of eating 15
Bonus: What else to mind 19
Before everything began
How did table setting begin?
The tradition to set a table in a festive manner is several centuries old. Even in the Antique Ages opulent feasts were very popular and have been celebrated in accordance. Meals were enjoyed out of clay or metal dishes. Oftentimes meals were eaten with hands, and only spoons were used only on seldom occasions. Knives were mostly used to carve meat. Tablecloths weren’t necessary because people mostly ate, whilst laying down, with their hands or directly out of bowls; throughout the years people began using table cloths to cover the tables on which meals were served.
Opulent feasts didn’t lose their popularity in the Middle Ages, but people less in a proper manner. A table was only set when meals were served on it. Normally there weren’t any dishes apart from cups. People ate from a deepening in the table, or from slices of bread used as plates – a method that was as economic as environmentally friendly, because the bread was eaten at the end. People mostly ate with their fingers and when cutlery was used, then it was often shared with the person to your left or right, same for cups. Forks were barely used as they were considered as a symbol for the devil. Tablecloths were, in comparison to the Antique Ages, not used for decorative purposes, but rather for practical; people wiped their hands on them after a meal to protect their clothing.
Italian royalty discovered the appeal in a fabulously set table around the 16th and 17th century. People noticed the beauty of a precious tablecloth and started to realise the comfort that forks could bring to a meal as well as the modern ruff to protect themselves for embarrassing stains. Forks were obviously more fitting for the occasion that spoons and fingers. Soon after knives received the same reception as forks and were used just as often. This began to transition to France and