The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-01-17
Good Taste
Today
BY EMILY POST
LIST OF TABLE SERVING

lD-fal IL lced Tea or lced COZ
fee is served with a meal. when Is
it poured (b) II ginger ale
should be offered as an alternate,
how would IT be poured
Ans. (al II is poured as soon as
the first course is served. or at the
beginning of the second. That is,
IL you are having bouillon or melon.
or something like that, for the first
course. the iced coffee or tea is
properly served in the middle of
the second course, as soon as every
body has been helped. On the
other hand. IL your first course is
a substantial one. the iced tea or
coffee would be served in the mid
die of the first course. Both are
poured in the kitchen. Iced tea is
usually brought in complete. but
cream and sugar are passed for
iced coffee. (b) The glass for gin
ger ale or anything else that you
drink unmixed is put down on the
table and the beverage is poured
into 1t. THE only time when a
glass is lifted up to have anything
poured into it is when you serve
beer. The glass had to be lifted
off the table and tipped and the
beer poured gently so that it
doesn't overflow with foam.)
LA II salad is served on a
separate plate with the meat and
vegetable course. where is the
salad plate stood? tb) If salad
is served with the meat instead
of vegetables, are people expected
to put it on the hot meat plate ?
Ans. ta) There is no rule since
salad in addition to the vegetables
is not correct. (b) The majority
Of Americans like their salad on
a cold plate and their meat on a
hot one. Only those who like
tired" Climp) salad prefer to put
their salad on a hot plate with
fowl or game-the only hot meats
with which one eats salad.
12-If no knives are needed at
luncheon, should they be put on
the table anyway? That is, is a
table setting incomplete without
them?
Ans. Yes. it is incomplete with
out one knife. In fact, there must
be knife and fork at each place
no matter what you are having.
That makes a place"
10. When the hostess pours
after-dinner coffee in the living
room, please explain this proce-
dure.
Ans: The procedure is very
much like that of afternoon tea.
Sometimes she makes the coffee
in the living room. Sometimes it
is made in the kitchen and
brought in in the coffee pot. In
any case, a tray with sufficient
cups and saucers. and either
pounded rock candy or else lump
sugar, is put on a low table at
which the hostess sits to pour. "a
pitcher of cream is at present in
cluded almost everywhere with
after-dinner coffee.) AS the host
ess pours a cup she asks how
many Jumps, and if he (or she)
would like cream, and hands the
cup across the table.
IA. If liqueurs are served by the
host with after-dinner coffee,
what is this procedure?
Ans. A tray with liqueurs and
glasses is put down on a not too
low table. That Is, man does
not sit at a table to pour as a
woman does. The host asks each
person his Tor herr preference,
then fills a glass and takes it to
the one for whom it was poured.
A HUSBAND AT LIBERTY"
Dear Mrs. Post: Can you explain
the social meaning of legal sepa-
ration? l have a friend who is
legally separated from his wife,
and my parents object to my see
ing him because they say 1 will
get talked about for going out with
this man who is not divorced. /
don't understand this because he
Is not even in the city with his
wife and is perfectly free to go
about.
Answer: II is true, as you say,
he is free to go about and it is
also true that you cannot be ac-
cused of wrecking his home. But
your interest in him may very well
keep you from having a home of
your own since he is not free to
marry. Actually we might call him
a sshushapd ~ Eharfvu