On Jun 23, 1:38*pm, Mark Thorson > wrote:
> Interesting article about the history of the fork.
>
> http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/d...istory_of_the_...
>
> The fork is much more recent than the spoon and
> knife. *It's hard to imagine eating without it.
> I'm a bit surprised chopsticks didn't make their
> way to Europe from Asia during the long pre-fork
> period.

How timely of you to post this. Just last night, I was re-reading
"Dear and Glorious Physician", the tale about gospel author St. Luke,
and in one scene, he's picking up his fork and spoon.. I stopped
right away and thought about Caldwell's goof. I was told at one of
those old time suppers that we had to make do with no forks as they
were not known in 16th century France.