Re: [gardeners] Re: tools
Margaret Lauterbach (gardeners@globalgarden.com)
Thu, 10 Dec 1998 11:21:27 -0700
>Also, do you know why one always faces the cutting edge of the knife
>into the plate instead of toward the diner to one's right? Please
>consider: were the dangerous edge of the knife faced outward one
>would run of risk of causing a fellow diner grevious harm. This
>custom of courtesy to one's companions is of many centuries duration.
>
>
>Pat
>
And how is one to pick up said knife, Pat? The sharper edge always points
down when I pick it up. I infer that is incorrect, so I would be drummed
out of polite society in the South, were I to venture there. There have
been dining companions -- even Southerners -- upon whom I would have liked
to have used the sharp edge. Margaret L