dessert fork

What to do when a dessert fork hits the floor?

Then the fruit may be eaten with the hands or a dessert fork.

In English, it is a technical term for a type of dessert fork.

He toyed with his dessert fork for a moment.

"How can I tell the difference between the fish fork and the dessert fork?"

He knew a dinner fork from a dessert fork.

Our pressured, perplexed waitress did not respond to two requests for dessert forks.

But this other - " He proffered a dessert fork.

They've even set the dessert forks and bread plates just where Emily Post would like to see them.

The dessert fork and teaspoon can be omitted from the setting and added later, after the main dish has been cleared.

Setting the table without a dessert fork.)

Silas laid down his delicate dessert fork.

"But . . ." Barin drew lines on the table with his dessert fork.

Dimitri gripped his dessert fork tightly in his hand to keep his surprise in check.

Dessert fork (alternatively, pudding fork/cake fork in Great Britain)

"Fourchette" is French for "little fork", and the word is also used as a technical term for a type of dessert fork.

So it came as a surprise to me to learn last week as I was polishing dessert forks that some people's Thanksgiving plans might still be in flux.

At a less formal dinner, not served from the kitchen, the dessert fork and spoon can be set above the plate, fork pointing right, spoon pointing left.

She said she liked the looks of my shrimp salad, and before I could do anything to stop her, she'd picked up my dessert fork and taken a bite."

Tables are often set with two or more forks, meant to be used for different courses; for example, a salad fork, a meat fork, and a dessert fork.

But as the evening progresses he seems to grow younger, swinging his group harder, until patrons put down their dessert forks and the dignified northern Italian restaurant turns into a festive jazz club.

Miss Judith explained about knives on the right with blades facing left, glasses right, napkins left, dessert spoon top facing left, dessert fork top facing right.

But as this generation prepares for life after college, they are also flocking to seminars on dining etiquette, an offering on the rise at colleges and universities nationwide, to learn the fine points of dealing with olive pits and missing dessert forks.

They will unpack 50-odd trays for the two big steam tables and the 15,000 coffee cups, pastry dishes and dessert forks, as well as shot glasses for the Sambuca that will "flow like water" into the 6,000 espresso cups.