Bob Terwilliger wrote:

> "Family-style" service is perfectly acceptable, especially when it's a
> FAMILY MEAL. Even such a culinary luminary as Thomas Keller agrees, as
> evidenced by his restaurant Ad Hoc in Yountville, where ALL the food is
> served family-style.
>
> Bob

Of course it is acceptable! Why else would we have had to learn how to
pass food around the table as children back in etiquette classes if it
wasn't acceptable?