🍴 This isn’t an attempt to sell Ikea’s latest model of forks, it’s only an attempt to bring back eating food with hands. Indeed, forks haven’t been around that long after all. In France, they’ve only been brought from Italy in the 16th century. So, eating pizza, with or without a fork? #forkgate (subtitles are available in French and English by clicking on the CC button on the YouTube control bar).

🔗 "L'étonnante Histoire de la fourchette", by Pierre Leclercq: https://www.news.uliege.be/cms/c_10474051/fr/l-etonnante-histoire-de-la-fourchette

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