[plant42]

It is more common in Europe to hold the fork in your left hand rather than your right. But I think that has more to do with handedness than anything.

I'm right-handed, yet hold the fork in my right hand and often get comments about being 'cack-handed'.

[Svip]

Part of being part of human society is to fight your basic instincts, which - as a right-handed person - would make you use the fork with the right hand. Hence why you should use the left hand.