DEAR MISS MANNERS: My mother told me, long ago, why table knives are placed with the cutting edge towards the plate, but I have forgotten. Would you be so kind as to remind me, as my mother is no ...
Forks are placed to the left of the plate, knives to the right. The plate itself is three centimetres from the table edge. Dessert cutlery sits above the plate. Drinking glasses to the right, above ...