The History of Forks

It’s simply! The History of forks 🍴

Hello there mate have you ever thought about Forks well nor did I but here’s a video about Forks in fact did you know that using Forks used to be seen as sacrilegious in other words a tool of the devil despite that it took eight centuries from its first recorded

Sighting for the fork to become what it is today a regular Fork that we use to eat with it may surprise you to find that the fork you use every day was previously deemed immoral unsanitary and a devil’s tool in fact the word fork comes from the Latin FKA which means

Pitchfork the ruling classes in the Middle East and the Byzantine empire were the first to utilize dining Forks when Maria arolina the emperor’s niece married the son of the Doge of Venice in4 Common Era the utensils migrated West Maria carried a little case of two pronged golden Forks to Italy which she

Utilized during her wedding reception the venetians who were used to eating with their hands were astonished and when Maria died 2 years later of the plague St Pete Darian declared it was God’s punishment nor did she Dain to touch her food with her fingers but

Would command her Unix to cut it up into small pieces which she would impale on a certain golden instrument with two prongs and thus carry to her mouth This Woman’s vanity was hateful to almighty God and so unmistakably did he take his revenge St Peter Damian thereby closed

The book on the fork in Europe for the next 400 years for the following several centuries most Europeans ate their soupy stews with spoons or stabbed meat dishes with knives many people even aristocratic families preferred to eat with their hands handwashing was a ritualized element of the meal and it

Was actually a fairly civilized procedure in medieval France for example the aristocracy was summoned to dinner by a trumpet blow that sounded the horn for water and Pages would pour perfumed water over each Diner’s hands and bring napkins for drying before they plunged into their meal beginning in the 15th

Century the love for candied fruits introduced the fork to Italian meals these Delights peaked the appetites of Renaissance Italian diners and altered dinner etiquette refined sugar was once a scarce resource reserved for medical purposes But Rising Commerce from Arabia and North Africa boosted did its availability preserving the entire fruit

Was a popular and expensive way to use up all that Sugar the sticky syrupy dessert stained fingers and utensils and eating it with a knife was cumbersome and messy what is the solution the fork as it turned there were more sweet tooths than there were Forks to go

Around it was customary for a guest to clean the utensil before transferring it to the next person the device gradually gained acceptability throughout Italy and by the 15th century using a fork had become a sign of good manners rather than an instrument of the devil the rest of

Europe would have to wait another 100 years and another Royal marriage in order to catch on when the Italian noblewoman Katherine deedi came to France to marry Henry II the future French King the food culture and fashion were light years ahead of those in France Catherine brought with her

Fashionable attire Florentine cooks with ice cream recipes ballet the Italian banking system and of course the fork however adoption of the latter invention was not Universal throughout Europe Queen Elizabeth the First of England had Forks but preferred to eat with her fingers because she thought spearing was

An UNC action finally in 1633 30 years after Queen Elizabeth’s death Charles I said it is decent to use a fork and presented each of his children a silver knife Spoon and Fork set as Forks became increasingly popular their design altered the two-pronged fork was enough for spearing food but not for scooping

Bits from underneath the inclusion of a third and subsequently fourth time made food less likely to fall through and gently bending the tines made it a more effective tool in the 17th century finally by the end of the 17th century the fork was adopted in Scandinavia the final European holdout

Until the Revolutionary War Americans did not accept the usage of a fork at Meal Time prior to it British taxes made it hard for the colonies to make Goods such as Forks the regulation required raw resources from the colonies to be sent to the United Kingdom for processing into useful items purchasing

British made Forks was an unnecessary cost and pleasure for Colonial colonists it took eight centuries from its first known sighting for the fork to become widely used at Western meals once it was adopted no no one embraced the utensil with the same Zeal as the victorians there was one for almost

Every sort of Cuisine including forks for eating lobster dipping strawberries in whipped cream and sharing bread at the table even a Victorian head would spin with the number of kinds and restrictions fortunately in recent times the pendulum has swung the opposite way even on the most formal occasions you’re

Unlikely to be presented with more than three types of forks salad entree and dessert if you’re perplexed by the selection of silverware during a more formal supper take heart in the words of etiquette expert Emily post manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others she wrote if you have that

Awareness you have good manners no matter what Fork you use and that’s it for this video folks I wish you all the best and please don’t take it too serious goodbye