Napkins were increasingly adopted ... properly by placing them on their left shoulder, as etiquette required. Adopting the new table manners was hardly an option for the poor, who were the vast ...

Add dinner-party etiquette and restaurant manners( like sending food ... so follow your host for cues that it’s go-time.

Good manners dictate you break down this textile ... who need to leave the table briefly. A subcategory of table etiquette, ...

We probably all know to keep our napkins in our laps unless we get up from the table, and of course, the rule that dates back ...

I recently took part in a workshop about Western table etiquette which was organised ... we should put the napkin on our laps. But good table manners involve a lot more than that.

The guest should get the best seat at the table, which is the ... So do you reach for the napkin to secretly discard the food? Don’t you dare, says etiquette expert Sonia Jacobson.