Eat Eat Hurrah: BON TON

Eat Eat Hurrah opens here with a purposely non academic space to elaborate, with all of you, on the immensely wide subject of good manners. Time by time we shall be discussing some “old fashioned” advice along with new ideas, modified by yours and our experiences. What we want to avoid, however, is imposing set rules. Instead, we wish to offer ideas as “experiments” in the art of receiving, in order to surprise your guests with completely new and different “finds” which, rather than being mere imitations themselves, are to be imitated or, in any case, to become fashionable, yours and yours alone, along with ways of entertaining guests with simple formality.
Internet allows a continual comparison with what is happening and is transforming the entire world of good manners, allowing the circulation of ideas and suggestions, behavior in which we can instantly realize a change, a new trend, a new point of reference with which we can compare ourselvesor compare our own culture and the very sensitivity of our guests.


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The table



Setting an inviting table is the first favor you do for your invited guests. The choice of table cloth, dishes, silverware, glassware, etc, reflect, like nothing else, the taste, the tendencies, the personality of the host While it is understandable, however unacceptable, that in a home the food might be less than good, or worse yet, anonymous, (which, optimistically speaking, is true 80% of the time) what is totally impolite is when the preparation and the table setting are sloppy or thoughtless. In today’s global market, we can find an enormous variety of tableware coming from diverse parts of the world, diverse cultures and from the most remote places, at just about any neighborhood shop or, if you are interested more in history than in geography, there are flea markets everywhere with an infinite source of inspiration and surprises.