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Stern@lemmy.worldM to Neat - For neat stuff you found@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months ago

The thousand-year story of how the fork crossed Europe, and onto your plate today

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The thousand-year story of how the fork crossed Europe, and onto your plate today

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Stern@lemmy.worldM to Neat - For neat stuff you found@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months ago
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From scandal to staple: how the fork travelled from Byzantium to Lithuania, helped by Queen Bona Sforza and centuries of changing table manners.
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  • ominous ocelot@leminal.space
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    2 months ago

    Neat!

    E: Interesting that they knew the fork in bronze age china but decided to use chopsticks instead.

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      The article is great but overlooks that a lot of upper class European culture is from them attempting to emulate Ottoman elites.

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      Easier to make wood sticks then metal pokie things I suppose.

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