When hosting a dinner party, how do you set up your table if you have a left-handed person – sit him on right of the host or hostess at the table?  Because every utensil they use, is opposite to what a right-handed person uses.  So the  forks would be on the right and the knife and spoon would be on the left.  The wine and water glasses would be on the left and salad plates on the right and bread plate on the left.

My opinion is not to be so persnickety and set the table in uniform fashion and let the left-handed person work it out himself.  Seating is always alternates male and female; the man sits to the left of the woman he escorted.

Do people have dinner parties anymore?  We do and have had many in our home.  We even have invited friends out for dinner for special occasions. After dinner we would play cards or dominoes.  I recollect one party we had and we were having ham and all of the trimmings.  Just about table time, one of my friends came into the kitchen and informed me that one particular guest did not eat pork.  No problem, just grab the chicken Tetrazzini casserole out of the freezer, throw it in the micro-wave and wallah.  All’s well that ends well.  Or if I would have wanted to be mean, my guest could have just eaten a vegetable plate.  I bet they would not have made any noise about not eating pork.  And further thinking about it, I did see them serve themselves a sliver of ham.  Oh! Well!   All in a day’s work of a hostess when the expected always expects the unexpected.  

I guess younger people are too hooked on their tech gadgets to take time out for a dinner conversation.  I can just see it sitting at the dinner table texting each other.   Or how about something more informal like a barbecue in the backyard and checking your tech gadgets at the front door?  

I am looking forward to that next dinner party – hmm – wonder what I can serve?  Will it be chicken, fish, honey-baked ham or steak?   My husband always suggests cabrito (goat) since we farm them.  My answer to that is, “what are you talking about, killing Janie or Billy?”  Not at our table!

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