• This is totally different from the American style of eating dinner. In America, you are expected to eat with whatever hand you use to write with. Hence, right handed people, or the majority of the table, will be expected to cut up their meat and potatoes into small, bite sized bits and then switch the fork back to their dominant hand. Most shall eat their supper one piece at a time, tasting the side dishes and main meat individually in stations rather than loading up the fork and eating it all at once. If you are naturally left handed, then proceed to eat lefty, and watch the others: they will be eating their food with the tines facing up, not down, spearing their food and putting it in their mouths, or shoveling it in, as done with foods like peas or mashed potato.