| Show gating manner in 1350 in a description of a dinner in 1350 there is no mention of the fork and it is not certain that there was a knife for each person the guests were placed in couples as far as possible on the ground of their being mutually agreeable which was the more necessary as in certain cases the porringer a bowl with eara for the soup had to serve two persons if a person preferred not to his spoon or if one had not been him he drank his soup from the porringer held by one of the ears those present at the table put their hands into the common dish to take such pieces ot meat aa they preferred though it was not expected they would explore the mass too thoroughly this will pass foi c description of tho way a meal was eaten in an aristocratic family in europa years before america was discovered by columbus this elc ganco of appointment and manners was not found lower down in the bobial scale in families of less wealth hands were not always washed before eating napkins were not supplied and not only were meats taken with the fingers from the common dish but the soup was placed upon the table in a large vessel into which every hia spoon and conveyed tho liquid to hia month san francisco chronicle |
