Sixty years ago, Chinese food got a makeover. Its new look—in American restaurants, at least—revolved around a single piece of furniture, the “Lazy Susan” rotating table. Through the 1950s, many ...

Round table with Lazy Susan and Chinese dishes - RosyNPooh/Shutterstock Sometimes topped with a Lazy Susan, the circular tables in Chinese restaurants epitomize cultural dining etiquette, social ...

Did you know that the original purpose of those tables was not to do with eating at all? Instead, they served to arrange Chinese characters into movable kinds for printing. Lazy Susan’s origins can be ...