WE STUDY TABLE ETIQUETTE

Today very few people seriously reflects on studying traditional rules of behaviour behind a table. Nevertheless, in life of any person there can be a solemn reception, and here here your knowledge will be useful to you. In the past was considered that each brought up and cultural person should know rules of table etiquette - try to transfer this rule and to modern life.

If you sit at a table d'hote, do not put on a table elbows are it is considered a bad form sign. Unfortunately, the majority of people about this rule forget and put elbows on a table, being on a visit or on a secular party.

If to you have given a woven napkin, she is necessary for putting on knees in the straightened kind. Lips to wipe such napkin it is not accepted - for this purpose use paper disposable napkins which always should be present on a table.

Never eat from a knife and do not impose to itself meal a knife is an inadmissible behaviour behind a table. Also it is not necessary to put food which costs on a table while it will not offer all present on the plate. Never it is impossible to impose meal from the general plates own spoon - for this purpose there are special devices.

One more rule which concerns not only house feasts, but also restaurants: if you want, that the waiter has taken away your plate, put a plug and a knife in parallel each other on a plate so that they looked in one party. If you show that you have departed for a short while, and the plate does not need to be taken away, put a plug and a knife cross-wise.

If you have asked to transfer a plate to the neighbour, transfer ware only from left to right. The same concerns a situation if the man have asked to pour wine to the woman sitting on the right. In this case wine needs to be poured the left hand.

It is necessary to notice also that behind a table d'hote it is not accepted to talk loudly and communicate through all table with far sitting person. Never forget to thank the mistress or the cook for the prepared dishes is a line of the polite visitor.

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