Matthew's Journal

I'm assuming that pudding is going to be the last course. If you're going to serve a savoury afterwards, the savoury knife and fork should go at the top and the pudding utensils at the side. (Except at Churchill, apparently, where they confused me by putting the pudding utensils at the top, and the savoury utensils to the sides, so I accidentally ate my pudding with my savoury utensils and was left trying to eat an angel-on-horseback with a fort and spoon. But the usual rule for cultery selection is to start at the outside and work in, until you run out of cultery, then move to the top and work down.)