by Kate Dolan | Oct 19, 2014 | Articles, Colonial America, Food, Kate Dolan, Latest Posts, Living History
It would have been very easy to set the table in the early 1600s. Guests wore their own knives to the table, and forks were only used as cooking tools in the kitchen, so they would not be laid out on the table either. Except in Italy. At about that time, an English...
by Kate Dolan | Oct 3, 2014 | Articles, Food, Latest Posts, Living History
Does it bother you that the person sitting next to you at the dinner table has a knife? Probably not. After all, you have one too. But more than that, the knife within easy grasp of you neighbor is about as sharp as a cotton ball. Not much of a threat. But in the old...
