My father, a bonafide anglophile, warned me: "When you move to
England, watch how they eat!"  "What do you mean, dad?" I
laughed at him. "Don't they eat like everyone else?"  "No—you'll
see. They pile everything up on their fork as if they were
stacking up a Leaning Tower of Peas at the end of their tines."
Sure enough, as is usual, my father was completely right.
There's a lot of chat about which way of eating is correct: the
European method, where the fork remains in the left hand, and
the knife in the right, or the American method, where the fork
rests in the left hand while the food is being cut, and then
moved to the right in order to eat.  But what about the English
method?  The English method a painstaking process. It begins
with the European method, but while we Americans will look at a
plate of meat-potatoes-'n'-veg and prong one bite of steak and
munch away before sticking a portion of peas, the English insist
on having a little bit of each plated element on their fork at
any given time. Thus, watc