Miss Manners: Is using fingers to eat pastry ‘not done’ at a traditional fancy tea service?

Alone among the three of us, I lifted pastry to lips using my fingers and held each successively smaller remainder until all ...

Miss Manners: What’s the proper way to eat pastries at tea time?

My friends made their choices, placed pastries on plates and proceeded to dissect cream-filled puff pastries with fork and ...

Miss Manners: How does one eat large sushi rolls without gagging?

Miss Manners does not usually condone deconstructing food in public, but these are desperate times. Use your chopsticks to ...

Miss Manners: What is the proper way eat a large sushi roll without gagging?

A reader wants to know how to stuff a large sushi roll in one’s mouth; another wonders if it’s rude to simply ignore a friend ...

Miss Manners: Can’t stomach a massive sushi roll? Miss Manners has an unorthodox approach

Miss Manners does not usually condone deconstructing food in public, but these are desperate times. Use your chopsticks to ...

Miss Manners: Friend I haven’t seen in a year cancels hangout last minute

Miss Manners does not usually condone deconstructing food in public, but these are desperate times. Use your chopsticks to ...
Excellent Town on MSN

20 Foods People Argue About the “Right” Way to Eat

Food often ignites the fiercest debates during family dinners or with friends over drinks. It makes the meal more than just a ...
Psychology Today

Benefits of Eating at the Table

Eating at a table with others effortlessly stimulates healthier eating. Individuals eat more fruits and vegetables, eat more slowly, digest their food more effectively, and make better choices about ...
The Town Talk on MSN

Alexandria woman teaches children that good manners make a good impression

Carolyn Rothermel taught two levels of “Mind Your Manners” programs, one for first- and second-graders and another for third- ...