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Downton Abbey Inspired Dinner and Etiquette Talk, part 4

Posted by Suzanne Boden - May 1, 2013 - Etiquette Blog
cream soup bowl with spoon and rim soup bowl with spoon

We are starting with a soup course. Soup might be ladled from a soup tureen, or as we have it, already in bowls as we sit down. Most of the guests tonight have rimmed soup bowls, also called deep plates. I have a cream soup bowl, which is smaller in diameter and taller with no […]

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Downton Abbey Inspired Dinner and Etiquette Talk, part 3

Posted by Suzanne Boden - March 25, 2013 - Etiquette Blog
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We arrive into the dining room to find the table set for dinner. But tonight not all the place settings match. Sometimes it is fun and perfectly acceptable to use a variety of different china patterns and other things to make the table interesting. Here the china matches, but the differences are in the settings […]

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Downton Abbey Inspired Dinner and Etiquette Talk, part 2

Posted by Suzanne Boden - March 18, 2013 - Etiquette Blog
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The etiquette talk was an important part of the evenings and we started with a bit of definition. Simply put, etiquette is the code of rules which a society holds to establish expected behavior. My talk is exclusively about etiquette at dinner and in western Europe and the United States which, for the most part, […]

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Downton Abbey inspired Etiquette Dinners

Posted by Suzanne Boden - March 7, 2013 - Etiquette Blog
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The final Downton Abbey inspired dinner and etiquette talk is over, the third leaf removed from the table, and the last of the leftovers delivered to the local food share. I think the guests enjoyed themselves; I certainly did despite all the work. I’m hoping to schedule a few more for next winter and looking […]

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