FROM FINGERS TO FORKS
If we pups get an ear infection, the treatment plan usually involves using a special ear cleaner and giving me ear drops or other medicine to ensure we return to normal as fast as possible! It can take up to at least three days to return to normal. To prevent these pesky ear infections, owners should clean our ears right after we get out of the pool! Trimming the hair around our ears in the summertime also helps a lot.
THE EVOLUTION OF DINING ETIQUETTE
So, while the summertime is such a blast with all the swimming, playing, running, and jumping, keeping my ears clean and healthy means I will have an even better time! By taking these simple steps, you can help prevent ear infections and keep me feeling my best. Let’s ensure every splash and play session is as fun and carefree as possible.
Have you ever feasted on chicken wings, your hands stained with barbecue sauce, and thought, Why don’t we just eat everything like this? As it turns out, we did — people only started eating their meals with cutlery fairly recently. Many cultures around the world still eat primarily with their hands. So, why are placemats adorned with forks, spoons, and knives commonplace today? To find out, we have to get our hands dirty — because the history of cutlery, much like the history of civilization, is complex, nuanced, and full of gossip.
BIG SPOON LITTLE SPOON Perhaps unsurprisingly, spoons are the oldest examples of cutlery people used consistently for millennia. After all, what good is a fine pot of communal soup without a spoon to eat it with? Likewise, knives have always been used to cut up meat and prepare our meals, but only the advent of individualized meals rather than buffet-style brought along the advent of dinner knives.
Forks, however, are an altogether newer invention. Although large serving forks can be traced as far back as ancient Egypt, the individual, smaller version has its roots in the Byzantine Empire. Around 1,000 year ago, the Byzantine noblewoman Theodora Doukaina brought a golden fork to her wedding feast in Venice. It became quite controversial among the Italians, with many shunning the novel tool as posh and overly decadent. However, as royals began to intermarry, the fork gradually caught on. Royals increasingly ate with cutlery and became weary of dirtying their hands with their food. By the 1800s, cutlery was widespread in the Western world, and today, most people and establishments serve meals with silverware! ANTIQUITY — MAKING A COMEBACK There’s a reason movie theater popcorn doesn’t come with a popcorn spoon and your favorite burger joint doesn’t offer sporks; some food is meant to be eaten with your hands. While most sit-down meals will always be the domain of the cutlery-wielding elite, finger food isn’t going anywhere anytime soon, and if history has any say, it never will.
INGREDIENTS • 4 cups water • 2 3/4 cups uncooked brown rice • 2 whole carrots, diced • 1 cup green peas, diced • 1.2 lbs canned or deboned salmon DIRECTIONS 1. Boil water, then add brown rice. Cover and cook for 30 minutes, adding the carrots and peas after 20 minutes. 2. Preheat oven to 350 F. Wrap salmon in tin foil and place on a baking sheet. Bake salmon in the oven for 15 minutes, then add the baked salmon to the rice. Mix well. 3. Turn off the heat and let rice mixture cool completely before serving.
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