Table Etiquette

Let’s have a look at the table layout wear — linen, plates, and tools first as we go ahead with practice.

If you happened to have breakfast in some official place, then try to recollect these simple rules of eating regular breakfast food would.

The rules that specify how knife, fork, and spoon must be used have evolved along with the forms of the utensils themselves. In general, these rules are explicitly intended to prevent the utensils from appearing threatening.

Historians are sure that Man started to eat with spoon and fork two thousand years ago. Earliest spoons were made of wood and had semi-sphere ladle. In the middle of the century, European nobles used flatware made of other materials: gold, silver, sea shells and nacre.

Probably, the first man’s table utensils were sea and coconut shells. But those didn’t suit cooking, so the man learned to make clay vessels and to fire them. Such was the beginning, but it took seven thousand years more, before ceramics became traditional serveware material.

The main principle of table setting is utensils and table attributes complying with the occasion — friend meeting, business lunch, family holiday or others — and menu.

The size and the form of dining table should correspond to a table code of conduct. Generally, tables may be of two forms: round (oval) and square (rectangular). What is such distinction for and which table is more serviceable in certain circumstances?