SC - Tablewear
lilinah at earthlink.net
lilinah at earthlink.net
Fri Mar 10 15:28:28 PST 2000
Not related to food, but to eating it...
As a Ren Fair actor, i have two, count 'em, two sets of eating
utensils, a brass two pronged fork and matching more-or-less
hemispherical bowl spoon (watch out for acids, make you taste the
brass) and a hand forged iron set (two-pronged fork and more
elongated-bowl spoon).
I know that the prevailing wisdom is that the forks wouldn't really
have been used in Elizabethan England, but at small fairs we buy our
food, often Thai stir fried noodles (don't ask), since i'm primarily
vegetarian, and forks come in handy.
But a late period Byzantine reenactor says on his website that there
is evidence of two-pronged forks at that time (i think around the
time of the of the Seljuk Turks - what's that, 11th to 13th C., i
think)
http://www-personal.une.edu.au/~tdawson/tware.html
Anyone else have any knowledge of this? Any other information about
fork use? typical table ware of the 10th through 13th centuries,
anywhere in the "Knowne Worlde"? I'm guessing my Near Eastern persona
would have been content with clean fingers, but, well, inquiring
minds, and all that...
Thanks,
Anahita Gauri al-shazhiyya bint-Karim al-hakim al-Fassi
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