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: 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 ...
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Miss Manners: How to handle sushi rolls when they are too darn big

What is the polite way to eat large sushi rolls? Sometimes they’re too big to comfortably eat whole without gagging! GENTLE READER: Dissect them. Miss Manners does not usually condone deconstructing ...