SC - Eating Utensils website

[david friedman]

>Hm. What's our first documented date for forks in England? I keep wanting
>to think Phillipa of Hanault brought them, but that may be rosemary.

The British museum has two Anglo-saxon fork and spoon sets, one of 
which is unfinished. Judging from the size I would guess that they 
are eating forks, but they could be for some other purpose.

I wrote the web site pointing out the error. Part of the response may 
be of interest to someone on the list:

>Incidentally, we are currently looking for a one-year post-doctoral 
>position for someone to better document our Rietz Food Technology 
>Collection, on which our webpage is based, as well as to develop 
>other webpages.  If you know of anyone in that field, please have 
>them contact us.
>
>Russ Hartman
>Anthropology Dept.
>California Academy of Sciences
>rhartman at calacademy.org
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