Orlando Sentinel
DEAR MISS MANNERS : I am an executive chef at a five-star restaurant who frequently entertains at home.
I love to cook creatively and come up with ideas for things the guests have never had done before, usually with success.
However, I got some feedback after a dinner party that makes me wonder if I breached a rule of etiquette of which I was unaware.
The invitations were for four couples — my parents, my wife’s parents and two other couples — to join us for a “very informal Sunday supper” at which the menu was a soup bar with five kinds of homemade soup. This was not canned condensed soup; this was high-quality, five-star-restaurant seafood chowder, venison minestrone and a Middle Eastern lamb soup that I spent a lot of time on.
There were three kinds of homemade bread to go with it