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CreoleCook -> RE: serving food at dinner party with Dom/mes (8/17/2006 2:49:40 PM)
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speaking not as a Dominant, but as a former Chef, I can tell you honestly all of the above comments are correct, except for wines, or drinks. All beverages are usually served from the right. Also, you may notice in movies, or on public tv shows, the waiter is always holding a wine glass by the stem, between the two middle fingers, fingertips never touching the glass. Reasoning is simple enough. No fingertips provides a more sanitary glass, as well as the perceived intention of giving the customer (Dominant in this case) a pristine glass. bottles of wine are never held by the neck, for the reasoning your hand is warmer than the wine itself, and will cause said wine to "heat" as it comes out of the bottle. This can be very detrimental to older vintages.
As to the set up of a formal dining setting (going left to right), appetizer fork, salad fork, dinner fork....... butter knife, teaspoon, sauce/soup spoon.
Plates (if food is served separately)... dinner plate, bread plate, soup bowl, stacked perfectly on top one another.
Glasses on the table: water glass to the immediate left, just above the salad fork. Next to it, slightly above: dinner wine glass. Above, and slightly between the two other glasses, dessert wine glass.
Last but not least... when serving appetizers, tray should be at neck height to all in room, except when said person wants something, then lowered only to waist level. In a crowded room, its impossible to serve from the left, but if all seated, try to...
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