husband is european... knife AND fork in hand, no switching hands, no setting down... and totally clean bones (no picking up fried chicken, now...) besides.
When I was a teenager, I adopted that Euro style for the knife and fork... can't remember why. It's much more efficient in my opinion. husband, meanwhile, is constantly switching the fork to his left hand to cut with his right, then putting the knife down and picking up the fork again. Fried chicken, however, is completely o.k. to pick up with your hands.