A first impression can last a lifetime. How people come into your house is the same way they will leave it. People with ...

So why are elbows on the table rude? Some say the origin of this specific table-manners mantra was born in the Middle Ages, when guests at crowded banquet tables were jostling for space at ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: Is it acceptable to place a small evening clutch on the table while dining out? Often, the restaurant chairs have open backs, so if I place the clutch behind me, it falls to the ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: What is the proper way to handle it when your nose needs attention: Do you stay at the table to use a tissue, or should you excuse yourself to the restroom? I understand the ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I am finding that whenever I go out to a social event, or even a restaurant, I am either being captured by a camera or someone has taken candid pictures without my knowledge.

We are taught to eat quietly and with grace. This article may as well be about table manners because we eat three times a day but sometimes we do not bother to check how we behave at the dining table.

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 ...

When you come back perfectly healthy and even-keeled, you may say, if they ask, “As I mentioned, I don’t like taking pictures. But I hope yours came out well.” DEAR MISS MANNERS: As a ...

In a world where dining etiquette is evolving faster than you can say ‘pass the salt,’ some old-school table manners have taken a backseat. From waiting for everyone to be served to discreetly ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: In my grandparents’ home, no food was allowed to go to waste. After a meal, if there was any food left on someone’s plate, it would either be claimed by someone else or ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: My husband and I recently bought ... A neighbor dropped by several times with a camera, to take pictures of our home. She explained that the previous owners, who had moved ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I learned, as a child in an all-right-handed family, to set the table with the knife and spoon on the right and the fork on the left. Since I gave birth to a left-handed child ...