Knowing your table manners gives you more confidence in embracing new dining experience, whether it's dinner at a fancy restaurant, job interviews over a meal or a meal at a friend's home. The napkin ...

How to set a table used to be common knowledge, but in today’s fast and busy world, knowing how to set a table properly has become somewhat of a party trick. If you’ve been tasked with hosting a baby ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I am planning to invite my daughter’s in-laws to a formal dinner. I plan to host it the way my late almost-aristocratic mother would have done 60 years ago: with fine china, ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Nowadays, certain etiquette conventions have fallen to the wayside. Emojis and brief iPhone e-mails have ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I am planning to invite my daughter’s in-laws to a formal dinner. I plan to host it the way my late almost-aristocratic mother would have done 60 years ago: with fine china, ...

A comfortable table setting, especially a formal one with a variety of glassware and flatware, should allow about 2 feet of space between the center of one plate and the center of the next. The formal ...

The next time you're throwing a formal sit down dinner for your family and friends, go the whole hog. With the mushroom risotto and gulab jamuns you're making, don't forget about dining table ...

I used to think the quality of the food was the most important part of a dinner party. Then I read that it was the quality of the guests -- good guests, great dinner. Lately I've read that it's ...

In today's Miss Manners column, advice columnist Judith Martin responds to a reader's question about using tablecloths as lap ...