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Bread and Butter Etiquette • Baskets may be passed with rolls, sliced breads, crackers or breadsticks, or the roll may already be on your bread plate when you’re out dining. • Take only one roll to leave some for others around the table. You can always have seconds! • Place the piece on your bread plate to the left of your dinner plate. For butter, also place one pat on your plate. If the butter is in foil, remove the foil, fold and place to the side of your bread plate • The golden rule of bread is to only break off a small piece of bread, hold it in your fingers (not your palm) and butter it ONE bite at a time. One never butters an entire roll! • When you are ready for your single bite, butter it with the butter knife on your butter plate and gently glide the piece to your mouth with as few crumbs as possible. • Bread may de dipped (or sopped) in gravy or soup but buyer beware, it will be messy! • Bread baskets are always passed to the right. If you are the host, pass the basket to the right but offer one to the person on your direct left first so they do not have to wait until the basket makes it around the table. For larger groups, there should be more than one basket on the table.
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Lisa M. Grotts |
