Author Lynn Rosen

Your dinner table is a place for celebrations. It can be so much fun to host or attend a dinner party brimming with good food, good conversation, and good cheer!

However, a dinner party can also be a bit daunting. With its complicated array of dishes, utensils, and serving pieces, and its mystifying rules regarding behavior, the dinner table can be enough to make some people nervous!

The solution is here! Lynn Rosen's book Elements of the Table: A Simple Guide for Hosts and Guests is designed to make sure you know the rules of the table, and that you never need worry about embarrassing yourself!

Elements of the Table provides a simple step-by-step guide to setting the table and serving and eating food. It also serves as a guide to the decorative elements of the table, including napkin folding--all guaranteed to facilitate stress-free dinner parties!

For hosts and guests alike, this book provides an overview of what is on the table at a formal dinner, and gives easy instructions on how to use everything properly. Elements of the Table also gives you a taste of some of the history that has led to our contemporary dining customs and our table etiquette. That way, you'll always have something new and interesting to chat about over dinner!