<<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!>>
“Passing Directions…
Which Are in No Way Connected to Driving a Motor Vehicle.”
'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.
