Avoid the Most Common Table Setting Mistakes with These 11 Editor-Approved Hosting Tips

Our handy guide will help take the guesswork out of setting the table. These simple tricks for how to set a table follow ...
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20 Easy Thanksgiving Table Setting Ideas

Dress up your Thanksgiving table with style and ease using these 20 creative tablescape ideas. From rustic farmhouse charm to ...
Orange County Register

OC Fair 2018: In table-setting competitions, the fanciful designs would pass any etiquette test

Ready, set, table! Crystal Young, in her sophomore year participating in the OC Fair’s table-setting competition emerged Tuesday with a “Best of Show” ribbon and $150 prize – a repeat of her ...
OPB

At Oregon State Fair, table setting is a competition in artful placement of knives, forks and plates

The Oregon State Fair brings hundreds of thousands people to Salem each year. They come for the rides, the shows, the food … and the competitions. One of the most unusual involves a skill many of us ...
Food

Clean label and meal kits are changing how consumers set the table at Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving historically is a time for friends and family to over-indulge on hearty meals filled with butter-soaked sides, marshmallow-topped vegetables and decadent desserts, but data from ...
Oregonian

Table setting competition sets a high bar at Oregon State Fair

First come the tablecloths, fine china, flatware and stemware – and then come the rulers. At the Oregon State Fair table setting competition, precision is everything. On Aug. 24, two days before the ...