[Sca-cooks] Forks in period??? (Somewhat OT)

[Phlip]

Mostly Hatless skrev:

> Quick question on fork use.  Not quite on topic, but...
>
> I'm sure someone has a handy reference to when forks were actually used at
> first?  I'm looking for forks used for eating, as well as, and more
> importantly, forks used for cooking/carving.  Ideally in the English
isles,
> though the rest of Europe would work for me too :-)

As I understand it, the Italians adopted it first in Europe, and the English
were rather resistant. Stefan's Florilegium has quite a bit of stuff. Check
there.


> BTW, for those curious as to why, I'm toying with arms...  I am getting
> this so far:
> Vert, a wheel of eight pokes,

This makes perfect sense, considering a number of our chats ;-)

on a chief Or a Talbot sejant between two
> sets of a fork and spoon crossed in saltire.
>
> Any feedback on this would be greatly appreciated, off list might be more
> appropriate...  I'm considering replacing fork by knife, but I think
> visually a fork works best...

Dunno for sure, but it sounds awfully busy to me. Any book heralds want to
give an opinion?

Mostly Hatless, my love, we have a couple of Heralds in House- you might ask
them.....

Phlip