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Setting your table & table etiquette

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The holidays are coming again.  The time of socializing and dinners with friends and family.  Good food is part of those dinners, but the eye also wants something of course ;-).  Questions that I often hear are: how do you style your  dining room table  ?  What is the etiquette at the table?  Because where does that  dessert  fork  belong  ?  Do you eat from the inside out or from the outside in?  To answer these kinds of questions, I'm going to tell you all about the table setting and table etiquette today. To set the table For starters, you have different ways of setting a table.  For everyday use, you can finish with an informal setting.  Often you will only have 1 set of cutlery per cover.  You can then place these on either side: fork on the left and knife on the right.  Or you can opt for an even more informal setting, more eatery style and place both on the right.  The same applies here: fork on the left and knife on the right. If you look at a  luxury dinner set  ,  for exa