Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Forks
Design Sponge makes cutlery nerds very happy with this in-depth look at the fork.
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Henry Petroski, a Professor of industrial design, has a fascinating book called The Evolution of Useful Things. One point he argues is that as forks were expensive to make in the American colonial era, and thus expensive to import, the colonists would hold the meat down with the spoon while cutting it, then shift the spoon to the other hand to eat it.
He also goes into detail about the perfect number of tines for a fork, from two through about eight, if I remember. Three to four ended up working the best.
NotAmerican at 4:39AM on 08/22/09