I have gotten several comments and questions about the Davy Crockett anecdote I mentioned last week about the time he allegedly drank from the finger bowl at a fancy Washington dinner. A finger bowl, virtually never seen on tables today, is a small bowl of water, usually warm, in which people dining could rinse their …

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