Cloth Napkins

I detest paper napkins.  If I come to your home and you offer me a paper napkin with dinner, I might make a little face like someone made a stinky.  I don’t mean to, I just really cannot stand paper napkins, or paper towels, but whose counting. Paper napkins are rough, nasty, non-absorbent and bad for the environment.  Have you ever tried to cover your lap with just one paper napkin?  It’s like pasties on a duck- useless.  And the cost- if you have kids you could send them to college for what you’d spend on paper napkins.  The thought of sitting down to a wonderful meal and being given a paper napkin almost ruins the meal for me, but lets not be too hasty, I guess they are good for soaking up the grease off pizza, but if you come to our home I’d give you a towel for the grease. And isn’t that much nicer?

I love a good cloth dinner napkin-at least 22” at the smallest point, either rectangle or square, white, monogrammed, and absorbent like a towel but not too thick, as to be bulky in the drawer when folded.  That, for me, is perfection and can even make fast food look appealing.  Cloth napkins that are past their prime in our home are reincarnated as cleaning rags so I think even the Dali Lama would agree it’s a good thing.