Hello Reader, Last month, I found myself helping my half-Mauritian friend set the table for a lunch with her relatives in Point d’Esny – and getting it all wrong. ‘No,’ she said, ‘in Mauritius, we lay a spoon alongside the large knife, not a small knife. Mauritians like to use a spoon for rice dishes.’ I also learnt to place the baguette directly on the table, from where the lunch guests would tear off hunks and hollow it out, eating the crispy outside. And no table was complete without the...