Dishware for Frugal Cocktail Food Review Cooking 101 Strategies Nutrition Etiquette and Frugal Stylish Recipes

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by Harold Almon 
Be at Ease School of Etiquette Austin
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Dish ware for cocktail food is to be bread and butter plates.

Remember all those plates you got for bread, and underlying plates for bowls and first course glasses. Here is another place to use them. Get more. You can all eat from a common plate. But at some point this stops letting you be stylish. You can use salad plates for cocktail food plates, but it may not be quite as frugal.

Add an inexpensive drink, and the money you have spent is still less than twenty dollars.

A meat and cheese plate with crackers and classic mustard could be a standard base.

The cocktail food table can be placed in the corner a room. It is usually covered with a cloth covering the full front of it to the floor.

A cocktail food table can be augmented by another table with a tray or a tub for the collection of dirty glasses and plates, toothpicks, and napkins. In public each can be collected to a tray and tray stand. In a private home this may be done on the bottom level of a two to three tiered covered roll in cart.

Give everyone the opportunity to have a second drink. At home, empty glasses left on a coffee table are to be collected two at a time. This is to be done as a matter of course unless the host bids a person to take his or her pre dinner drink into the dining room.

The line to cocktail food may be omitted in favor of one leading directly to station four: the line to the table. (This way please.) No drinking on the way to this station.

Short of this, a pre-dinner drink can be offered at the table. It is called an aperitif: (An appetite starter.) It is to be placed to the right of all other glasses.

In a commercial dining room, a pre-dinner drink is to be placed atop a cocktail napkin when it is served, rested, or finished.

It and the napkin can be removed after it is finished.