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A chef who served a Sunday dinner of homemade soup and dessert was disappointed with their father-in-law’s review of the meal ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: My wife and I have friends of 20 ... Most recently, they took home the remaining premium ice cream and locally made hot fudge. Am I wrong to think this behavior is rude?

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I am an executive chef ... expect a meal to include more than soup — even good soup, even soup followed by ice cream. But knowing your profession, your guests were doubtless ...

At family gatherings, I loved it when my uncle “Retz” (short for Retzlaff) made good old-fashioned vanilla ice cream, and how my cousins and I traded off turning the hand crank. Fresh grown ...