Marilyn vos Savant Quotes

Most food you drop is still perfectly edible. If it was in your eyesight the whole time, you can pick it up and eat it.

Never lick a steak knife.

There's nothing going into my mouth that's not wrapped.

One really interesting thing for me was learning about kitchen etiquette, and the differences between an Indian kitchen and a French one. They're different in atmosphere, and also in how chefs maneuver within them.

Serve yourself, put the food away, then eat.

When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere.

We need to always be vigilant on the sanitary issues.

Those who store, package, and sell the food we serve our families have a responsibility to maintain basic standards of cleanliness in their facilities.

Lebanese Consumers Learn They Are Eating Shit.

Man seems to be the only animal whose food soils him, making necessary much washing and shield-like bibs and napkins. Moles living in the earth and eating slimy worms are yet as clean as seals or fishes, whose lives are one perpetual wash.

I'm a germophobe, so I don't like people talking over my food, breathing, spitting, anything. Just let me eat in peace.

Do not, as you value the health and happiness of those who sit at your table, place before them hot leavened bread or biscuit.

Always chew on your pretzels before you swallow.

My mother always said you could eat off her floor; you could eat of my floor too, there's so much food down there.

If a child washed his hands, he could eat with kings.

Basil Stag Hare tut-tutted severely as he remarked to Ambrose Spike, 'Tch, tch. Dreadful table manners. Just look at those three wallahs, kicking up a hullaballoo like that! Eating's a serious business.

Be careful not to be the first to put your hands in the dish. What you cannot hold in your hands you must put on your plate. Also it is a great breach of etiquette when your fingers are dirty and greasy, to bring them to your mouth in order to lick them, or to clean them on your jacket. It would be more decent to use the tablecloth.

My notion of an elegant table is you don't leave the knife sticking out of the mayonnaise jar.

My mother had been slicing up the chicken. She took a drumstick and dropped it on the floor. She kicked it around a little, picked it up and put it on the edge of the plate. "There," she said, "we'll give him this drumstick." "Deal.

To use bad taste, you have to know the rules of good taste. I've always thanked my mother for that. She taught how to eat with proper table manners and all that stuff, to the point of rebellion. But I couldn't have rebelled from it if I didn't know it.

No rule of etiquette is of less importance than which fork we use.

Shh! Don't talk with your mouth full.

Diapers do not belong on the same table as food.

Elbows are never put on the table while one is eating.

The dinner table is the center for the teaching and practicing not just of table manners but of conversation, consideration, tolerance, family feeling, and just about all the other accomplishments of polite society except the minuet.