Category: miss manners

Food and Fellowship

“The dinner table,” wrote Judith Martin, aka Miss Manners, “is the center for the teaching and practicing not just of table manners, but of conversation, consideration, tolerance, family feeling, and just about all the other accomplishments of polite society except the minuet.” Scout out “value of family dinners” online, and you’ll discover a bundle of…


Etiquette, Eating, and Eloquence: Two Leading Ladies of the English Language

Ask someone who knows the movies to name an actor and actress who best depicted sophistication, grace, and style on the big screen, and odds are that Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant will pop up in that conversation. “Sophisticated” is an adjective often linked with both of these stars. In nearly all his roles, from…