The Fork Not Taken - Eating Utensils from Around the World

The Fork Not Taken - Eating Utensils from Around the World

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When we think about global cuisines, we often consider food in terms of difference. And the means by which people deliver food to their mouths whether by forks, spoons, chopsticks, flatbreads or fingers often signals that difference the most. Custom and culture can and do shape the variety of ways people eat. Yet eating around the world isn’t always about what’s different it’s also about what’s the same. Consider the words of Dr. Margaret Visser, cultural anthropologist and author of The Rituals of Dinner: “Food is never just something we eat . . .

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