Are Table Manners Going Extinct?

Are Table Manners Going Extinct?
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Do you know why we eat bread with our hands but use a knife and fork otherwise for most all plated dinners? Legend has it that the court of King Louis XIV made the call. It was the first court that had full access to table cutlery. It was a new technology at the table. To use knives and forks was a class marker, a sign that you were among the elite.

Jeffrey A. Tucker
Jeffrey A. Tucker
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Jeffrey A. Tucker is the founder and president of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press, as well as 10 books in five languages, most recently “Liberty or Lockdown.” He is also the editor of “The Best of Ludwig von Mises.” He writes a daily column on economics for The Epoch Times and speaks widely on the topics of economics, technology, social philosophy, and culture. He can be reached at [email protected]