Those endless “elbows off the table” admonishments may have seemed like a drag in childhood, but they were actually setting ...

Thanksgiving dinners are known as the time for eating lots of food — but also for kids to get dressed up, get cleaned up, and ...

For it is not good manners to be gloomy at dinner or ... as etiquette required. Adopting the new table manners was hardly an option for the poor, who were the vast majority of the European population.

But good table manners involve a lot more than that. According to the workshop instructor, people should be happy and comfortable when they are dining with you. It sounds easy but it is not.