At home or away, good table manners are important for kids to learn. Even young children can learn the basic rules of ...

Despite the chaos and messiness of medieval mealtimes, some basic etiquette prevailed ... of the medieval period toward hygiene, table manners were not born in a vacuum. In Italy, the culture ...

GENTLE READER: Setting the table in full would be Miss Manners’ choice, to avoid forcing your friend to respond to others exclaiming, “You don’t have a plate.” But she wonders why ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: Whether at home, at another person’s house or in a restaurant, what does one do when food from one’s plate drops on the table? GENTLE READER: Although she is inclined to ...