Miss Manners: Don’t tell me to start eating before everyone is served their meals!

I’m well aware that, yes, I could in fact begin eating, but I’m intentionally choosing to wait out of consideration.

Miss Manners: How should I deal with a friend who always abruptly leaves the dinner table?

When we are finished eating and are just sitting around the table talking, she will suddenly jump up without warning and say ...

Miss Manners: How can I encourage friend bring a completed dish to dinner, rather than monopolizing my kitchen?

DEAR MISS MANNERS: Every time I go out to eat with a particular friend, and there’s another friend with us, she does the ...
mlive

Miss Manners: A dash of strange salt habits

DEAR MISS MANNERS: Now that I’m widowed, I am eating breakfast out with friends more frequently. Eggs often need a little ...

Miss Manners: If I hold hands with family in prayer prior to a meal, how do I wash them again before eating?

GENTLE READER: Wash your hands at the time appointed, hold hands during the prayer, and then, when everyone else starts to ...

Miss Manners: I washed my hands before dinner, now everyone wants to hold hands, pray

In today's Miss Manners column, advice columnist Judith Martin offers subtle solution for hygiene-conscious diners caught between cleanliness and social courtesy.

Miss Manners: Do I really have to hold hands for prayer? I just washed them for supper

GENTLE READER: Wash your hands at the time appointed, hold hands during the prayer, and then, when everyone else starts to ...

Miss Manners: My friend’s jarring habit of jumping up and leaving meals

DEAR MISS MANNERS: Every time I go out to eat with a particular friend, and there’s another friend with us, she does the ...
East Bay Times

Miss Manners: Don’t tell me to start eating. I know the rules.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I subscribe to the belief that, at a sit-down meal, it’s correct to wait until all guests have received their food before you begin to eat. Miss Manners: The older women made a list ...

Miss Manners: There’s an easier solution than making separate dishes for each guest, can you guess?

Because otherwise, it seems to Miss Manners that omitting those three ingredients still leaves a pretty wide berth for ...