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Consider the Fork

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...

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