knife

Another festive season is upon us, and as we are wont to do at the end of every year, we look back at all the articles that went up in 2018 and we snuffle out our five favourite foodie knowledge nuggets.

Very little feels more commonplace than a knife and fork. We take our eating utensils for granted and we can’t imagine anyone enjoying a ‘civilised’ meal without them, but as we know, that hasn’t always been the case. So, how did cutlery develop, and which came first – the knife or the fork?