Evening star., 1935-08-11

E w. fNNa certain definite
questions have
been SC often repeated that the most practical
thing TO do, it seems to me, is to give the
following specific directions in plain catalogue
form.
Sandwiches: All ordinary sandwiches, not
only at picnics but everywhere, are eaten in
the fingers. At table, club sandwiches and
other inch-thick and whole-meal sandwiches
are best eaten with knife and fork. But if you
are not sitting at table you hold tightly in the
fingers of both hands an overlarge and hugely
thick piece and bite into it as nicely as you
cen.
Corn on Cob: The best advice is to avoid
making ferocious and snatching bites at it
and not to let fragments of corn and butter
smear ON your face. You can spread the butter
across half the length, or possibly the whole
length, of two rows at time with an in
dividual butter knife The more butter you
take, tie shorter the length should be. and,
of course, you add salt and pepper to taste.
Whole Fruit: Bananas in fingers - or sliced
with knife and eaten with fork; plums and
grapes in fingers (see pits" below; small
apples in fingers, if you choose, but most
people quarter them with knife, cut out the
core, peel and eat in fingers; pears the same,
or if very juicy, hold and eat with fork;
peaches (if you dislike the skim hold with
fork, peel and eat with fork.
When served at table all fruits should be
accompanied by fruit knife and fork. These
implements are very small. the blade of the
knife is silver Tor gold plated and has sharp
point at the end for removing seeds.
Baked Potato: This is usually broken in
half with the fingers and held, one half at
time, in the fingers of the left hand. Take out
the inside of the potato with fork held in
the right hand. and then mix butter, salt,
and pepper in it with fork. Another way is
to break it in half with the fingers and lay
both halves, skin down, on the plate.
Mix little butter in small part Of one
half = with fork - and eat that. Then mix
little more and so on, always eating it out
OF the skin without turning it out on the
plate. A third way if you like to eat the
skin - is TO cut the two halves through, and
then again into several pieces with knife
and fork Butter the few cut pieces with the
fork and eat with the fork held tines UP. Later
on cut few more pieces.
Finger Foods: Many arbitrary rules for
eating food with fork, spoon or fingers are
stumbling blocks rather than aids to smooth
ness. The best rule is the obvious one: One
eats with fork or spoon foods that are messy
and sticky; one eats with the fingers those
which are dry. 1t is true that one should not
eat French fried potatoes or - strictly -
Saratoga chips, or bacon, or chicken wings in
the fingers; and yet if a man is in his own
house he can do this and ask for finger bowl.
Asparagus: BY reputation this is finger
food, but the ungraceful sight of bent stalk
Of asparagus dripping like fountain into
some ones mouth, and the fact that water is
also likely to drip from the end, has been the
reason why most fastidious people invariably
eat it - at least partially " with fork.
That is, cut the stalks to where they become
harder with the fork, and then pick up the
ends in the fingers But all green asparagus
which has no hard end, is eaten entirely with
a fork.
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