Originally Posted by modgirl
I'm American but since I'm in Europe so often I seem to have adopted their custom of using a knife and fork with one exception: I am right-handed but it feels so wrong to hold the fork in my left hand and the knife in my right hand, so I don't. I'm adept at using a knife with my left hand and don't look or feel awkward at all. However, I've been told that since I'm right-handed that the way I'm doing it is wrong.
I do the same exact thing! My entire family uses the fork and knife European style. At dinner one night, though, we noticed that while they hold their fork with the left hand, I hold it in my right. We are all right-handed.
I really don't know why that is. But it feels perfectly natural.