Top tips for the table

  • Heston Blumenthal’s edible place settings and chocolate cutlery are not essential for the wow factor! Arthur Price is.
  • If you knock over the salt cellar, throw a pinch over your left shoulder to spite the devil. Salt has always been associated with friendship and good fortune, perhaps because of its ancient value as a precious commodity.
  • Crossed cutlery on your plate and expect a quarrel…
  • “Knife falls, gentleman calls. Fork falls, lady calls. Spoon falls, baby squalls.”
  • Pass the port to the left. A naval tradition. Perhaps because ‘port’ is left to ‘starboard’s’ right?