Dining tables are important for families and friends to dine together - By: Punjabi Sunil

Dining tables play a big part in any celebratory event. You have spent hours planning and cooking a meal. You have your starter organised, the main course is prepared and the ultimate dessert is ready. Where is the one thing you can set all of the food down to be eaten? Of course, it's the table meant for dining. Dining tables are important as they can provide us with a focus for gatherings.

Even if you are not sitting round the table, it's likely you will set food and drink out on it so your guests can help themselves. Therefore, dining tables play host to our celebrations by allowing us to have all of the lovingly prepared food and carefully chosen wine available for the party. The table can be pushed against a wall and used almost as a buffet table for food. It's probably the only place in the house you can set down all that you need for a celebration.

Dining tables play a part in our memory recall of happy occasions and gatherings. Who hasn't sat down at a table and not reminisced about some party way back in the old days? Family get togethers may be rare occurrences these days as we often work in different parts of the country or different shifts. Wouldn't it be nice therefore to plan a get together for when your travel or shifts conspire to get you all in the house at the same time? Make a date to spend time with your family around the dining table.

The warmth and love generated when we sit together as a family is something to cherish, because as said it doesn't happen often. Make the family get together special events. Set the table with your best cloth, napkins, china and cutlery. Even if you are sitting around having a takeaway, turn off the TV and sit together at your dining tables. You will be surprised how easily conversation flows and how enjoyable that can be.

It's probably fair to say we have lost the art of dining. I don't know anyone who would set a table with all the knives and forks that old-fashioned etiquette dictated. To have an enjoyable meal you don't need that, and it would certainly confuse my guests if I laid out fish knives and forks along with the cutlery for the main course and the dessert! Modern day meals are likely to consist of Chinese or Italian food, so chopsticks and fingers are de rigor for those styles of eating.

To enjoy dining there are two key ingredients; your guests and the conversation. You could have beans on toast and still have an evening round your dining tables to remember. Don't dismiss dining at your table completely, use it and be proud to use it. Introduce the art of dining back into your home and with your family. Your dining tables can be the hub of a great evening, so bring back dining, and remember it doesn't have to be fine dining to be enjoyable

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