<<In the spirit of the Thanksgiving holiday, I thought it appropriate to pluck from the annals of my military spouse newsletters a column I’d written about the finer points of table etiquette. It just goes to prove that I learn something new every day!>>
'Tis the season…for
holiday gatherings which involve too much food and not enough etiquette, much
like the one I recently experienced during a large gathering of our navy
family. There were twenty people seated around one long table, which had been
festooned with Lenox China, Waterford crystal and more forks, knives and spoons
than I knew what to do with. But despite the formal setting, there were no
butlers dancing attendance, so the meal was served “Family Style.” This
requires the passing of the food around the table for each diner to pile
mountains of gastronomic pleasures onto their own plate.
