Fingers Before Forks
rULE knives and spoons share the honour of being man a ' first eating implements, forks are ~ a comparatively modern invens tion. Forks as dining requisites first eamc s into common use in Italy during the first years of the 17th century and wen a introduced to the English about 1611. i They were practically unknown to th« - early settlers in America. Hands wew e used for holding food and napkins wer< therefore much employed. This account! f for the plentiful supplies of napery thai n are recorded in old colonial household V inventories and wills. if In 1633 the first fork to be need h v America arrived for Governor Johi s Winthrop of Massachusetts.' Its leathei n case also contained a knife nd I bodkin.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 201, 26 August 1939, Page 15 (Supplement)
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