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[Decker, Terry D.]

Try these:

Bailey, C.T.P. Knives and Forks. London: The Medici Society, 1927.


Boger, Ann. Consuming Passions: The Art of Food and Drink. Cleveland:
Cleveland Museum of Art, 1983.


Flanagan, Laurence. Ireland's Armada Legacy. Dublin: Gill and Macmillan,
1988.


Giblin, James Cross. From Hand to Mouth. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1987.


Gruber, Alain. Silverware. New York: Rizzoli International Publications,
Inc., 1982.


Harrison, Molly. The Kitchen in History. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons,
1972.


Hayward, J.F. English Cutlery, sixteenth to eighteenth century. London:
Victoria and Albert Museum, 1956.


Henisch, Bridget Ann. Fast and Feast, Food in Medieval Society. University
Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1976.


Millikin, William M. "Early Christian Fork and Spoon", The Bulletin of the
Cleveland Museum of Art, 44(Oct. 1957), 185+.



> > For a short, but interesting piece on forks quoting Coryate, try:
> > http://www.byu.edu/ipt/projects/middleages/LifeTimes/TableFork.html
> 
> Interestingly, of the English examples given in this text, 
> two are clearly identified as
> serving forks (for green ginger and sucketts) and the others 
> are part of cases of knives,
> which would lead one to assume that they are carving-forks. 
> The reference to eating forks
> is, again, Coryat. It's frustrating that this article has 
> been detached from its list of
> references. One thinks that more references to forks as 
> eating utensils must appear in
> the sources.
> 
> Jadwiga Zajaczkowa, mka Jennifer Heise