"Cooking utensil" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... were covered with rushes and straw, among which it was the useful custom to scatter fragrant herbs. This rough carpet was pressed by the clogs of working people and the shoes of the fashionable. The spit was a much used cooking utensil. Table-cloths, knives, and spoons were in general use, but not the fork before the fifteenth century. At one time food was manipulated by the fingers. York was advanced in table manners, for it is known that a fork ...
— Life in a Medival City - Illustrated by York in the XVth Century • Edwin Benson |
