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

[johnna holloway]

British Cutlery, edited by Peter Brown, has Italian forks with three
tines pictured as being 1580. Also says they were known in France in
1560. Carving forks are earlier.

I can look for more info later if you still need more.

Johnna Holloway  Johnnae llyn Lewis
(long day and physical therapy make one less likely to do research this
evening.)

Phlip wrote:
>
> Mostly Hatless skrev:snipped
>
> > 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?
>
> Phlip answered: 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.