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The Fascinating History of Cutlery
FROM FINGERS TO FORKS THE EVOLUTION OF DINING ETIQUETTE
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.
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!
Forks, however, are an altogether newer invention. Although large serving forks can be traced as far back as Ancient Egypt,
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the individual, smaller version has its roots in the Byzantine Empire. Around one thousand years ago, the Byzantine noblewoman Theodora
spoon and your favorite burger joint doesn’t offer
Doukaina brought a golden fork to her wedding feast in Venice. It became quite controversial among the Italians,
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.
with many shunning the novel tool as posh and overly decadent. However, as royals began to intermarry, the fork gradually caught on.
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