DEAR MISS MANNERS: My son and I have a gentle disagreement about the host’s responsibility at a dinner party or holiday table ...

Dear Miss Manners: Would you consider it rude to bring an additional dish to a dinner, even if it wasn’t requested ...

At one such dinner, my son whispered to me, “You’re being manipulative!” I said yes, I am doing my host duties.

Its ornate dining room reflects the elaborate setting in which high-society diners were taking their meals by the 17th century. To judge from the stature of some writers, table manners were no ...

“Table manners prevented us from leaving our space and starting a fight,” says Margaret Visser, author of The Rituals of Dinner: The Origins, Evolution, Eccentricities, and Meaning of Table ...

I really enjoy baking, and I know that the dessert the host is making is much more about presentation than flavor.

What’s your opinion on this? GENTLE READER: That you should leave either after Z or before A. By the latter solution, Miss Manners means declining the invitation, with warm congratulations to ...