PENMART01 wrote:

> > "Gregory Morrow" writes:
> >
> >Michael Horowitz wrote:
> >
> >> Assume a side dish is cooked some time earlier in the day in any old
> >> containor. Now it's time to reheat it in the oven and get it on the
> >> table. The white Corningware just doesn't fit in with Aunt Sissy's
> >> fine china. Clunky.
> >>
> >> I'm off to Bed Bath and Beyond to stroll the aisles, but is anyone
> >> using oven-to-table cookware that would fit with the nice china? -
> >>
> >
> >
> >Why don't you simply serve your guests? I can't imagine making my guests
> >pass containers of food around the table. It's cheap, tacky, and a
> >PITA...very poor manners.
>
> I have to agree, highly uncouth... on par with an Italian "football
wedding".
>


Passing food around the table is a bad memory from my childhood, I always
hated the "ritual" (even if there were only four of us...).

It's just something I abhor, like dirty plates etc. on a table. Likewise
dishes of half - empty food sitting on a table are distinctly unappetizing
to me...


> Passing hot ceramic/oven ware is also dangerous.


Yes.

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Best
Greg