A Well Set Table
Growing up in a family of six there was a least one day a week when the table was set. Formally set. A table cloth, napkins, 3 pieces of flatware, food in serving bowls and passed from person to person. Learning early on that if I helped set the table, dinner might be there sooner, I was a willing participant in that activity. And somehow I learned and remembered more than my siblings that the forks ALWAYS go on the left. After spending much of my adult life in the food and equipment industry there was an expectation that I would run across a well-set table very often and many times be responsible for getting a tabletop item or two to the table at which I was sitting. Seems like the cup or the saucer was always on backorder at the factory. La Casa De Los Azullejos Fast forward a few years and I was in a new relationship and my girlfriend said, " I want to go on a cruise one day". I said have at it, I am never getting on one of those cattle boats. As a former food...