ETIQUETTE
One of Reader's Digest's 50 Little Etiquette Rules is with 8 or fewer people at a table wait until all are served to do this
What is eat?
While many fresh plum varieties are clingstone the type dried to make these is usually freestone
What are prunes?
Make this breakfast dish of battered & fried bread called pain perdu in France
What is french toast?
A pestle is used to grind spices & other foods; this pestle's partner is the bowl in which the food is ground
What is the mortar?
This potato topper that resembles blades of grass is the smallest member of the onion family
What is chives?
Miss Manners says not Miss but this Joe Friday palindrome works for a woman old enough to do her own banking
What is ma'am?
Yellow crookneck & yellow straightneck are popular summer varieties of this veggie
What is squash?
The ec in home ec is short for this
What is economics?
Manzanilla is a green Spanish one of these a product of a Mediterranean tree
What is an olive?
Sprigs of this herb once thought to enhance memory are used to season lamb & chicken
What is rosemary?
U.S. flag code says a flag in bad shape should be destroyed in a dignified way preferably by this method
What is burning?
This small green vegetable native to Mexico is the essential ingredient in salsa verde
What is a tomatillo?
Home Ec course in which a student learns zigzag has more give than straight
What is sewing?
This smooth cylinder is used to flatten bread dough or to inflict a cranial injury on a philandering husband
What is a rolling pin?
Smoked jalapeno chili peppers which are also called by this name can be found in chili powders
What is chipotles?
Although some use regrets only with invitations this 4-letter abbreviated request is still common
What is RSVP?
In most U.S. grocery stores you should assume you are purchasing these even if the sign says yams
What are yams?
From the Greek for regimen it's the person in a school who sets up the cafeteria's regimen
What is the dietician?
Despite its name it's a slicing tool not a guitar-like instrument so don't strum it
What is a mandoline?
A brittle papery covering called a tunic grows around each clove & the whole bulb of this vampire-unfriendly plant
What is garlic?
When you're at the dinner table turn off this Apple device introduced in April 2010 even if you're winning at Fruit Ninja
What is an iPad?
Pickled pods of this have been called a standard hors d'oeuvre at... every Southern cocktail party
What is okra?
According to World Book rank of homemaker among all occupations
What is first?
From the Latin for strain it's a bowl-shaped strainer used to drain liquids from such foods as pasta
What is a colander?
Looking for an anti-inflammatory? Try a few quills of this spice
What is cinnamon?