The mechanics of eatingcorrectly ,

The mechanics of eatingcorrectly , no one should start eating until everyone has been served. However, if some people are served before others, the unserved should turn to the served, and say "Don't wait,please start." The served do so, but pick slowly at their food so that the others will be able to catch up.The set of silverware facing you at a classy dinner can be formidable, but the rule is simple: use it from the outside in . That is, you use the outside spoon for your soup, themiddle one for dessert ，and the inner one for your coffee.We eat nearly everything with a fork, which most people hold in the right hand. If something has to be cut up . you switch your knife to the right hand and do your cuting, then laydown the knife, switch the fork to the right hand and eat English people prefer the efficiency of keeping the fork in the left hand and knife in the right.Spoon-feedingFoods too liquid to be eaten with a fork are eaten with a spoon. It is bad form to drink from you soup bowl, which should not be lifted from the table. When you are finished, lay thespoon on the plate under the soup bow. You show that you have finished by laying the knife and fork side by-side on the right-hand side of the plate.The checkA father and two brothers who went out to dinner may split the check three ways. In a family this is most unusual, but among friends, splitting the check is common. If you don't oweme and I don't owe you we have a nice even relationship.