The behavior of the present people at a table has to be rational and harmonious, rules of etiquette are checked centuries. The great value was always attached to manners at a table. Therefore it is impossible to tell about the high cultural level of the person if he inaccurately or ugly eats, isn't able to use tableware.
Rules of etiquette at a table
Main rule: tableware which is to the right of a plate should be held with the right hand at meal time, the devices located to the left of a plate – the left hand. The knife is held in the right hand, and a fork in left (teeth down). Shifting of devices from the left hand in right and vice versa isn't allowed. It is impossible to eat from a knife and to cut it at once everything further to use only a fork. It will be more correct to cut off one piece and at once to send to a mouth, otherwise food will quickly cool down.
Handles of a fork and knife should be held in hand, hold with a forefinger the beginning of a knife blade. To cut a steak, the knife and a fork are kept under a small inclination. Sitting at a table it is necessary to lean wrists on its edge. It isn't necessary to place elbows, to bow low over a plate. It is necessary to drink and eat silently, it isn't necessary to blow on hot food, to sip and smack the lips. Women with painted lips have to use not linen napkins, but paper.
How it is correct to eat?
The piece of bread isn't held in hand, from it not bitten off, and pinch off small pieces which are eaten for one-two times. A special knife and a fish fork by the sizes there are less tableware. If the fish dish fried or boiled, then a knife is separated by stones. If you found a stone in a mouth, it is put on the tissue leaned against lips, then on a plate. Soup is eaten, scooping a spoon from themselves not to soil clothes. Is it it is necessary, having slightly removed and having rejected a plate from itself. Broth is eaten at first by means of a small dessertspoon, then drunk from a cup. The soup spoon has to be always in a plate, but not on a table. If the dish doesn't demand cutting (pastes, hard boiled eggs, casseroles, puddings, souffle), use only a fork, holding it in the right hand. It is allowed to help at meal time the bread piece located in the left hand. Sandwiches are eaten with the help of a knife and fork. If you need to make sandwich, a small amount of a desi, caviar or paste take from the general dish on the plate. Salads impose a salad spoon on a plate, eat them with a fork. If food on a dish passes around from hand to hand, at first it is necessary to offer the neighbor, and then to put to itself, without choosing. The dish from a tray is imposed a fork and a spoon (the spoon has to be located in the left hand). The use of a knife to vermicelli, solyanka, omelets, jelly, pasta, brains, vegetables and puddings is excluded. The listed dishes are eaten only with a fork. A bird eat by means of a fork and a knife, at the same time it is absolutely optional to juggle by the sweat of the brow with devices, seeking to peel meat from stones. It is necessary to reconcile to the fact that at stones there will be a little meat. Houses can dare to be taken a chicken leg in a hand. Sweet dough is eaten with the forks intended especially for it. If there are no those, it is possible to use a spoon. Hands it is possible to take dry cakes, gingerbread and gingerbreads. Pears and apples cut on quarters, husk a knife, then eat with a fork and a knife. To inadmissibly clean fruit in a hand. Cherry and sweet cherry are taken for a branch, sent to a mouth. Don't spit out a stone on a plate at once and don't put in an ashtray. Spit out imperceptibly in a fist, then shift to the plate.