SC - Holidays, Lurking, Gifts, Etc.

[Stefan li Rous]

> 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
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