Factoid about modern utensils

Forks
Thomas Coyate brought the first fork to England from Italy. They were 2-tined, like today's meat forks. The Americans imported knives from England and not forks. Since the knives had blunt ends, they used their spoons to hold their meat while cutting. Then they switched the spoon into the other hand to scoop up their food and eat it. To this day, we still switch hands with the utensil although we now use forks rather than spoons.

Knives
Originally knives had sharp points. Utensils were not provided at the table so guests used their own knives (usually hunting knives or weapons of war) to eat. King Louis XIV of France decreed that knives had to have a blunt end to stop the violence at the table.

Spoons
The Greeks and Romans made spoons from wood.

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