Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat by Bee Wilson
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The narrator here has a funny way of pronouncing many words: "inventory" has an accent on the second syllable, and "scones" has no long vowel sound. That aside, the fork is not considered until the second half of the book, as a polticized prelude to the culture of chopsticks. (Forks were, at times, pro-Republican and anti-Christian.) Ahead of all that there is spoon, boiling puts, dogs in spit-turning wheels, and more.
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