Trying to hang up pictures and get them straight is a bugbear for many, but a simple hack involving a fork could be the end of all your woes. One of the hardest parts of hanging pictures is getting ...

ALMOST one in four British primary school children cannot use a knife and fork with many preferring to tuck into meals using only their hands, a study shows. Researchers found that 23 per cent of ...

John Kasich strolled into a New York pizzeria this week and committed one of the greatest cardinal sins in the state: Taking a bite of a slice - with a fork and knife. The 63-year-old Ohio governor ...

It's only so often that a life hack comes around and truly changes our lives, but this is the case with the zip and fork trick. When the zipper on your favourite winter coat suddenly breaks it can be ...

It never happened and as the decades have passed I have come to realise it was always an unlikely event. It would never have washed with my children but obviously I believed it at the time and it had ...

In the context of dining etiquette, rice seems to be one of the most uncomplicated food items. In formal situations, most of us eat rice with a spoon or maybe even chopsticks (if we have acquired the ...

If you are forever struggling to peel potatoes, then this could be an absolute game-changer. A TikTok user has gone viral after sharing a tip that now seems so obvious we can’t believe we didn’t think ...

More than half of British kids are abandoning cutlery and eating with their hands (Picture: Getty/Metro.co.uk) Table manners are dead – or so says a recent study. More than half of British children do ...

A woman has sparked a debate online after she revealed which piece of cutlery she uses to eat a piece of cake. Many of us most likely dig into the tasty treat without a second thought, but not this ...

The dinner fork is one of the most common fixtures at tables worldwide—so ordinary, so unthreatening, that few give it a second thought. But for centuries, the fork was condemned as a symbol of ...

Few domestic metal objects carry more precarious symbolism for the British than cutlery. Employing the wrong edge of the spoon to drink your soup, holding your knife like a fountain pen, putting a ...

It’s worse than hearing that someone is committing adultery. We simply can’t help being shocked by it. The flouting of table manners triggers an immediate feeling of horror, like finding half a ...