http://mienmagazine.com/salon/ Social graces. Redefined. en Fri, 10 Sep 2010 20:07:29 +0000 http://mienmagazine.com/salon/topic/bad-bad-dinner-guests#post-20 Sun, 19 Apr 2009 21:04:05 +0000 lipstickstains 20@http://mienmagazine.com/salon/ <p>Dear Prunella</p> <p>Throwing a dinner party these days is like chairing the UN Security Council. It's more trouble than it's worth. Every person you invite seems to have a food issue -- wheat-phobic, dairy-averse, only eats goat. Some people arrive with their own food in containers! Is it rude to suggest that if you go to someone's house you should gratefully eat what's in front of you, or at least quietly push it around your plate until everyone else is finished? Please advise. </p>