A thousand years ago the Chinese had an entirely codified kitchen while the French were still gnawing on bones. Chopsticks have been around since the fourth century B.C. Forks didn't show up in England until 1611, and even then they weren't meant for eating but just to hold the meat still while you hacked at it with your knife.
Ruth ReichlTags: history food eating table-manners
Democracy was supposed to champion freedom of speech, and yet the simple rules of table decorum could clamp down on the rights their forefathers had fought and died for.
E.A. BucchianeriTags: humor freedom democracy funny freedom-of-speech humorous rights ironic political-correctness dinner sad-but-true table-manners gadfly ettiquette dinners being-polite dinner-conversation
When I am alone, my table manners are rather piggish, but i suppose that's because I don't eat at a table, I eat at my desk. Which could be considered a table, except we tend to define things by their function, and this particular surface is a desk, so perhaps piggish is unfair.
Kelli Jae BaeliTags: humor manners eating pig table-manners
Worse than talking with a mouthful, is gossiping with a mouthful!
Anthony LiccioneTags: eating gossip talking rumors table-manners impolite mouthful
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