Dear Miss Manners: My wife and I love East Asian food and are completely comfortable with chopsticks. We understand that bamboo chopsticks come from a renewable resource, although using them one ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I love Chinese food, but have never been able to master eating it with chopsticks. Whereas others seem to do it with great ease, I fumble and futz and finally resort to using a ...

Chopstick specialty outlet Seiwa did a poll, revealing that nearly 90 percent of respondents had a “highly favorable” impression of people who use chopsticks properly. It’s good manners!

Dear Miss Manners: When I went to dinner with my parents at a fine-dining restaurant serving Japanese cuisine, we ate our appetizers and entrees with chopsticks. For dessert we ordered a warm choco… ...

Miss Manners: I now wish I would have demanded to speak to someone else. Plus: I want to bring my own chopsticks. My wife says that would be gauche.

But whatever your mother was practicing, it was not Japanese manners. She should know that they also use spoons. They do not eat ice cream and cake with chopsticks, for reasons she may have ...

CHOPSTICKS FOR ROOKIES: Help is at hand for those who find chopsticks frustratingly difficult to use. Rookie Chopsticks, a kind of training version of the ancient implement, are designed to help ...

Chopsticks are a mainstay of dinner tables in Japan and throughout Asia. Japanese people have been using them since they were small children—that doesn't mean, however, that they've been using ...

Dear Miss Manners: When I went to dinner with my parents at a fine-dining restaurant serving Japanese cuisine, we ate our appetizers and entrees with chopsticks. For dessert we ordered a warm ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: My wife and I love East Asian food and are completely comfortable with chopsticks. We understand that bamboo chopsticks come from a renewable resource, although using them one ti… ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: My wife and I love East Asian food and are completely comfortable with chopsticks. We understand that bamboo chopsticks come from a renewable resource, although using them one ...