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Forks
noun - an implement with two or more prongs used for lifting food to the mouth or holdingit when cutting.
The tines of this fork help you hold any large cut of meat firmly in place while it’s sliced or carved. Forged from a single piece of high-carbon stain- less steel, it features a black polypropylene handle contoured for a secure grip. 6” long prongs.
dinner fork
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Kitchen forks trace their origins back to the time of the Greeks. These forks were fairly large with two tines that aided in the carving and serving of meat. The tines prevented meatfrom twisting or moving during carving and allowed food to slide off more easily than it would with a knife.By the 7th Century CE, royal courts of the Middle East began to use forks at the tablefor dining. From the 10th through the 13th Centuries, forks were fairly common among the wealthy in Byzantium, and in the 11th Century, a Byzantine wife of a Doge of Venicebrought forks to Italy. The Italians, however, were slow to adopt their use. It was not until the 16th Century that forks were widely adopted in Italy.Forks were brought from Italy to France when Catherine de Medicis married the futureKing Henry II. The French, too, were slow to accept forks, because using them was thought to be an affectation.
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