David Lebovitz on French Napkins

We loved this wry, funny blog post from David Lebovitz on the French ways of reusing napkins. Cloth napkins are very important in France, and some restaurants even have drawers' for their regular patrons' personal napkins! It's a great look at napkin culture in general, and French culture in particular. And we think the Sharpie idea is pretty good!

• Read the full article: French Napkins at David Lebovitz's blog

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Comments (4)

and now, let the germophobic comments begin: ready, set, GO!

The Chartier restaurant has the little drawers that the writer mentions not because of some lovely local tradition, but because it was originally a food kitchen for homeless Parisians.

I love it. I used cloth for a long time, and then just stopped using them as much. David's post reminded me that I should use them more often.

What a lovely article. Growing up, we used cloth napkins, and we reused them for several meals at a time. We each had our own napkin ring to mark our napkins (I'm the unicorn!). When I moved out, at first my bf was kind of grossed out about using the same napkin over again, but I told him to stuff it. If it's really dirty, throw it in the wash. Otherwise, reuse it! Enough said!