I think the basic table etiquette is a must no matter where you live. Which cutlery to use, what goes where and on which plate, how to properly eat your soup/bread/meat. Keep it simple and everyone will benefit.
I remember going to a New Years party at the most beautiful place ever. My (future) brother-in-law's close friend came from big money, and this guys parents where having a new years party in New Albany (the wealthy suburb of Columbus, the neighboring house belongs to the Rahals, the racing famliy). I can't call it a house, because it wasn't, it was a mansion (complete with bowling alley, indoor swimming pool and "Pub" in the basement level, then 3 stories above that, and one wing of the house was an old church from somewhere in Eastern Europe that they had dismantled and shipped here then reassembled and made a part of the house - the fireplace was so huge you could stand inside of it). Anyway, even with what I knew about manners and etiquette, I was still very intimidated because this was the fanciest dinner I had ever been to in my short 21 years. In order to compensate, I observed what the other people were doing, and followed suit. (But even I knew that when my other future BiLs date asked for a glass of white zin, she would be looked at funny).
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