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Eating utensils


THE HISTORY OF EATING UTENSILS
REFERENCES & CREDITS

Berger, Patricia and Terese Tse Bartholomew. Mongolia: The Legacy of Chinggis Khan. New York: Thames and Hudson in association with the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, 1995.

Boger, Ann C. Consuming Passions: The Art of Food and Drink. Cleveland: Extensions Division Department of Art History and Education, The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1983.

Brown, Peter, ed. British Cutlery: An Illustrated History of Its Design, Evolution and Use. London: Philip Wilson Publications Ltd., 2001.

Giblin, James Cross. From Hand to Mouth: Or, How We Invented Knives, Forks, Spoons, and Chopsticks & the Table Manners To Go With Them. New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 1987.

Grody, G.D. "Collectibles: Chopsticks." Bon appetit. August, 1992, vol. 37, no. 8, p. 20.

Hashi-San. Chopsticks! An Owner's Manual. Berkeley: Conari Press, 1991.

Henisch, Bridget Ann. Fast and Feast: Food In Medieval Society. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1976.

Himsworth, J.B. The Story of Cutlery: From Flint to Stainless Steel. London: Ernest Benn Limited, 1953.

Peterson, Harold L. American Knives. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1958.

Peterson, Harold L. A History of Knives. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1966.

Petroski, Henry. The Evolution of Useful Things. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992.

Rainwater, Dorothy T. and Donna H. Felger. A Collector's Guide to Spoons Around the World. Nashville: Everybody's Press, Inc., 1976.

Sandler, Sandra Takako. The American Book of Japanese Cooking. Mechanicsburg: Stackpole Books, 1974.

Visser, Margaret. The Rituals of Dinner: The Origins, Evolution, Eccentricities, and Meaning of Table Manners. New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1991.

Weiner, Debra. "Chopsticks: Ritual, Lore, and Etiquette." The New York Times, December 26, 1984.

 

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

For more information about the history of eating utensils, try the following link:
http://www.cuisinenet.com/glossary/utensils.html

 

 

CREDITS

Web page design and construction: Debra McPherson; Images: Andy Lax ©1998

 Funding for this research was provided by the Rietz Food Technology Foundation.

For more information about the Rietz Collection of Food Technology,
contact the Department of Anthropology at the California Academy of Sciences
at rhartman @ calacademy. org.

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