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Miss Manners: Friend’s salad fork place-setting is confusing when both courses come at once

DEAR MISS MANNERS: How do you set the table when the salad is served at the same time as the rest of the meal? I went to a friend’s house and she put the salad fork to the left of the regular fork. We ...

Miss Manners: My co-workers act like slobs when we go to a restaurant

Please send your questions to Miss Manners at her website, www.missmanners.com; to her email, [email protected]; ...
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Miss Manners: Who’s going to tell 20-something co-workers their table manners are the worst?

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I frequently attend team lunches and dinners with my immediate department members, both supervisors and associates. These dining experiences are mostly personal affairs and come ...

Miss Manners: As they say, unexpected guests don’t get fish knives

I am a single man who inherited, from my parents and grandparents, both a love of entertaining and also a great deal of the trappings needed – china, crystal, linen, silver – that other relatives didn ...