Be sure to taste the food before putting salt or pepper on it. 

Always pass salt and pepper together. If a person asks for just one, pass both anyway.

You may use your fingers to get salt from a salt cellar ONLY if there is no spoon, and it is an individual salt cellar in front of you. If it is a salt cellar that is being shared by everyone at the table, or even if being shared by two people, use the tip of your clean knife to bring a small amount of salt from the salt cellar and place it on the edge of your dinner plate. Then, for each bite of food to which you would like salt added, carefully dip that bite with your fork into the salt before bringing it to your mouth.

You may place rice in the shaker to keep the salt dry for at-home use (be sure rice will not fit through holes). When setting the table for entertaining, it is proper to serve freshly poured salt and pepper, no rice.

In America, the shaker with the least holes is for salt because it is considered less healthy than pepper. In Europe, it is the opposite; pepper has the least holes, and salt goes in the shaker with the most holes.

Do you know other salt and pepper etiquette that we should know?

This adorable squirrel shaker set is a gift from our daughter-in-law. I call myself a squirrel whisperer, and she honors that!

Oh, and being the rebel that I am, ours are filled according to European etiquette.