1) The document provides instructions for properly setting a table, including the placement of dishes, glasses, and silverware from the outside in according to order of use.
2) Silverware should be placed from the outside in on both sides of the plate, with knives blades facing inward and forks oriented correctly.
3) Additional items like napkins and centerpieces are also discussed. The overall goal is to create an attractive setting that follows etiquette standards.
1) The document provides instructions for properly setting a table, including the placement of dishes, glasses, and silverware from the outside in according to order of use.
2) Silverware should be placed from the outside in on both sides of the plate, with knives blades facing inward and forks oriented correctly.
3) Additional items like napkins and centerpieces are also discussed. The overall goal is to create an attractive setting that follows etiquette standards.
1) The document provides instructions for properly setting a table, including the placement of dishes, glasses, and silverware from the outside in according to order of use.
2) Silverware should be placed from the outside in on both sides of the plate, with knives blades facing inward and forks oriented correctly.
3) Additional items like napkins and centerpieces are also discussed. The overall goal is to create an attractive setting that follows etiquette standards.
1) The document provides instructions for properly setting a table, including the placement of dishes, glasses, and silverware from the outside in according to order of use.
2) Silverware should be placed from the outside in on both sides of the plate, with knives blades facing inward and forks oriented correctly.
3) Additional items like napkins and centerpieces are also discussed. The overall goal is to create an attractive setting that follows etiquette standards.
keep it wrapped up in crumbling of passing bowls and dishes around. bags of velvet. Silverware and table formal china, however pretty and If it is Thanksgiving at expensive, were meant to be Grandma’s, none of the above As a lady of the Carolina’s, used and this is a great time to applies. small shows of simple grace show them off. Even if you don’t and etiquette should become as have formal silverware, though, second nature to you. Now, this the point is to have the place isn’t saying that you have to run settings properly arranged and out immediately and have in the end, no one will really care visiting cards printed, or go buy what the silverware looked like a sterling silver tea set, but as long as there’s plenty of food having knowledge of little things and wine. like place settings means a lot to locals and ultimately, shows that With the dinner plate as the you truly care for and respect center, silverware should be the civility which is the heart of placed in line, an inch from the South Carolina. edge of the table, and arranged from the outside – in, in order Even at an informal dinner, it’s a of use. On the right, salad fork good idea to create a (smaller fork), appetizer utensil centerpiece. This can be a (or another small fork or none at week-long labor of love or, in all if you aren’t having an most cases, a small setting appetizer between salad, soup thrown together about five and dinner), then dinner fork minutes before the guests (your biggest fork) closest to the arrive. A few snippings from the plate. On the left, soup spoon, juniper tree for frilly greenery spreading knife for the bread and and aromatic scent, a handful of the dinner knife closest to the flowers arranged in a low bowl plate. Be sure to turn the blade or small vase, a couple of the knives toward the plate, strategically placed pieces of as an outwardly turned knife is fruit and a candle or two and a symbol of aggression toward your centerpiece is complete. A the other diners (don’t you love bouquet of flowers from the local these quaint little old world florist or, better yet, a nearby idiosyncrasies?). The dessert farm, would also work, but no fork and spoon for after dinner matter what, the point is that you tea or coffee should go across have one. Another little pointer: the top of the dinner plate, with don’t make the centerpiece taller the tines of the fork facing right than eye level. Guests would and the bowl of the spoon facing like to be able to see each other left. Napkins should be folded when they speak and it could either as simply or ornately as mess up a lovely arrangement if you like, and placed in the center you’re having to part the of the dinner plate. Glasses are sunflowers every time you want also placed an inch above the to ask a question. knives and in order of use starting from the far right: white As for your silverware, if you wine, red wine, dessert wine and have sterling silver, use it. Even, water tumbler. Dinner should and especially, if it’s your great be served from the kitchen and grandmother’s set that’s been ideally, placed on each diner’s passed down for generations. plate by the server/host instead www.Longs.sc Online Magazine | 2009 47