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: Is it rude to make separate sides for guests with food aversions?

The wife of one of the couples does not like cilantro, and the husband of another couple does not eat onions or garlic.
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Best of Miss Manners: They bring containers from home to fill with leftovers and it bothers the host

GENTLE READER: Your solution is clever, if a bit devious and indirect. If you want to be more forthright -- or if you tire of ...

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: Is using fingers to eat pastry ‘not done’ at a traditional fancy tea service?

Alone among the three of us, I lifted pastry to lips using my fingers and held each successively smaller remainder until all was consumed. (I promise you I did not lick my fingers clean when finished.

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 ...

Miss Manners: Accommodating preferences for a dinner party

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I love to cook and to host dinner parties, and we have many friends who reciprocate. The wife of one of ...

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 guests think I’m rude for not eating when they tell me to

GENTLE READER: A polite way would be to say, “Thank you; I will in just a moment.” ...

Miss Manners: What’s the proper way to eat pastries at tea time?

My friends made their choices, placed pastries on plates and proceeded to dissect cream-filled puff pastries with fork and knife, conveying the morsels to the lips with the fork. Alone among the three ...

Miss Manners: Should I tell them their gift to me was an obvious fake?

Therefore, it may not be worth the awkwardness of telling the givers that they were duped. They will have no choice but to ...