Leftovers: The Career Killer

Does bringing your lunch to work hurt your chances for success?

Caveman Posture

Is it rude to put your elbows on the table?

On the Rise

When are you supposed to stand at a meal?

Do Let Them Eat Cake

What— and how— to feed the homeless.

’Snot Appetizing

Is it impolite to blow your nose at the table?

10 Beginner Cookbooks

Helpful titles for the novice cook.

Personally, the only person other than myself that uses my knives, is my Lady and she knows how sharp they are. She won’t touch my Shuns, she knows how wicked sharp they are. What I did was purchase an inexpensive Santoku,...

I am Chinese but grew up in the USA. I learned the western food etiquettes as a kid from being around Americans most of my life. There is a new Chinese guy at work. Really great kid, straight out of school and having never been...

it for a new one because it’s easy and not a big deal cost-wise for the restaurant to just make a new drink. as a server, i always check my drinks for flies, lipstick stains, chipped edges, little pieces of mint, etc....

a burger I was not given utensils. So the question I ask is this : What is the proper etiquette when eating foods such as hamburgers and fries when they are served in such an upscale joint?

I don’t know what the law is. I suspect an inexpensive diner type place in a nightlife-oriented (and rough around the edges) area like the Melrose is in probably has a policy against alcohol because there’s too much...

One sushi taught me to put a dab of wasabi on one edge of soy sauce, dissolve a bit of that, and let a gradient of wasabi form across the soy dish. Dip fattier more full bodied fish on the part with the stronger wasabi, and...

and meet at the tips, and the rice is long-grained and fairly dry. Japanese chopsticks have pointed ends that don’t meet, and Japanese rice is short-grained and “rounder” and stickier. I can’t tell you...

I think it is extremely bad manners, and strictly antagonistic to all codes of etiquette, to observe and comment upon the dietary habits of others, especially one’s dear friends.

Cutting your greens with a plastic knife keeps the cut edges from turning brown. Here’s one example, although I recently bought a 3-pack of verying sizes at my local discount dollar store: http