Dining Etiquette Correct Creative Table Setting Service and Seating Arrangements Etiquette Lessons for College and University Students

Over the Counter Etiquette

by Harold Almon

Creative Correct Table Setting
Sharing Drink Atmosphere

Food and Honor

An At Ease Press Etiquette Guide

A Be at Ease School of Etiquette Course Guide

(82)

Text by

Harold Almon

Published by

At Ease Press baesoe.com

All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book, or parts of it, in any form, except the inclusion of brief quotations in a review.

TX 2 398 018

ISBN 978-0-917921-59-9

Copyright (c) 2010, 2012 by Harold Almon

Manufactured in the United States of America.

With Illustrations

To Ms. Anne: Mom, because of you, I love, learn, and remember. Dinner is almost ready.

Foreword

Welcome to a world of correct (creative) table setting, service, and seating assignments, a world where everything is done in consideration of someone else. Discover fun ways to excite your creative senses and still be correct when sharing drink, atmosphere, food, and honor. This book was written for a few reasons.

It lets you learn why a “Service for 8” can only serve 4, the correct things on which to base your place setting, and why the rule has always been, more than, “Go from the outside in."

Part I contains information on doing things correctly from setting a place setting for one: a cover, to menu cards, place cards, party favors, and napkins folds, to centerpieces to wow most anyone.

The right to know each arrangement is done correctly belongs to everyone (even the very busy.)

Part II lets you learn where to place official guests at table and how to honor just plain friends.

I needed the work. I wanted the work to be useful. Best Wishes. Thank you.

Creative Correct Table Setting

After cooking like a champion, and before calling them into dinner, there is setting your table. In home training, someone must have said, "Dinner is almost ready…. Go wash your face and hands and come to the table." You could only guess at whom had set it. If you set the table, it was rarely checked for correctness or for creativity. Someone was too busy being grateful. Moreover, you knew that your major job was to clean under your nails, and to say Grace or “Amen” before you touched your food.

In the place you are now, you want someone to come to dinner. That someone assumed you were taught United States of America options in table setting. You are now responsible for the correctness and the creativity of the table. You want that someone to see how well you remembered, and to enjoy your company.

This book contains information on adding "A Sense of Style" in table setting. It is all about fun rules on setting your stage to share drink, atmosphere, food, and honor: turning eating into elegant dining, and treating yourself nicely. You will learn about table setting: from a place setting for one: a cover, to napkin folds, menu cards, place cards, party favors, and options in table setting accessories, and discover fun ways to excite your creative senses. This book is to be used when setting a table is part of your entertainment plans, or is a job for which you are responsible.