SC - spork
Christina van Tets
cjvt at hotmail.com
Tue Jan 9 23:40:46 PST 2001
> A question for the group: While in Europe, in discussing medieval history
> with a very well educated historian, he questioned me as to what utensils I
> eat with during feast. I explained them; a two prong fork, a spoon and
> knife. He was quick to chastise me in saying that forks were not used in
> the middle ages; but rather only a knife and a spoon. One side of the
> knife was used to scrape the food from the plate onto a spoon, or it was
> eaten directly off the knife. I was under the impression that a two prong
> fork was introduced in early middle ages. Can anyone verify this
> information with sources?
You might want to check these files in the FOOD-UTENSILS section of my
Florilegium:
forks-msg (19K) 5/11/00 Period forks. history and use in Europe.
p-tableware-msg (33K) 12/28/00 Period tableware. Period referances
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THLord Stefan li Rous Barony of Bryn Gwlad Kingdom of Ansteorra
Mark S. Harris Austin, Texas stefan at texas.net
**** See Stefan's Florilegium files at: http://www.florilegium.org ****
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