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How to set the table - Anna Post

2013-06-26

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Can't remember where your soup spoon ought to go? What about your salad fork? Knowing how to set a traditional table can seem like antiquated etiquette -- but it can come in handy! Anna Post, great-great-granddaughter of etiquette expert Emily Post, shows how to set a table with a plate full of tips and tricks to boot (even your grandmother will be impressed).

Lesson by Anna Post, animation by TED-Ed.


put the salad fork to the outside of the dinner fork
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anchor our setting with the plate
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place the water glass to the left of it at an angle
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bread plate is on the left
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