Forks

In Western etiquette, an exceptional place is reserved for the old and beloved fork. Its history dates back to Roman times, when the stabbing dagger was refined and made more comfortable with the insertion of more teeth or better prongs.

 

The fork asserts itself in the elegant courses of Byzantium in the early Middle Ages. Contrary to what is commonly thought, the fork was mainly used by bourgeois and markets mainly in Pisa, Florence and Venice, in the aristocratic courts the etiquette in force still required to pick up food with three fingers and bring it to the mouth. Also in this case, as in the cafe, the church branded the tool as demonic, the story has it that around the year 1000 a Byzantine princess married to a Venetian doge, used the fork at the table making the clergy angry, who judged it diabolical. , feminine and scandalous. The use of the fork was established only in the sixteenth century and became common in the eighteenth century, its fortune is closely linked to pasta and especially spaghetti

 

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