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 pad



Etiquette, as well as tactile pleasure, calls for a table pad to be placed under the tablecloth. Known as a table pad, that thick white flannel under lining which, when covered with the tablecloth, on one hand protects the table, whether antique or not, from unexpected wine spills or, worse yet, overturned pea soup, greasy gravies or fertile fish sauces, while at the same time it softens the surface of the table, and is still solid enough for glasses to be set on it. Everyone should have at least one table pad, possibly with fitted elastic edges to keep it taut and smooth, which allows hot serving dishes to be set down without leaving ugly rings on the precious antique table.