As a girl, I took Home Ec class in seventh grade, which was cooking and sewing. And the correct presentation and service of the food we women cooked was something we had to know. I have my mother's old copy of the Fanny Farmer Cookbook, from 1947, and there's a drawing of how to lay out a perfect Miss Manners formal table setting. And people think it's complicated to know which utensil to use for which food. The singer Pearl Bailey was at a hifalutin UN awards banquet, and the person sitting next to her was confused. And she said, "Just remember, the tool furthest from the plate, is the first one you use."
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Date: 2023-05-06 11:48 pm (UTC)