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Show Ate With a Jack knife. The use of forks was introduced into France, with many other refined methods meth-ods of living by Catherine de Medici, and from France was introduced into England, where Ben Johnson ridiculed their use as a beggarly fashion imported import-ed from Italy 'to the saving of napkins." nap-kins." The first person who is recorded to have used a fork was a daughter of a Greek emperor, who married a dogo of Venice, and whose luxurious way of living was the scandal of that city of the sea. "She ate her food," says the Venetian Vene-tian chronicler, "with a golden fork." The knives and forks did not come into common use among the nobility in England till the 17th century; and as late as the 18th century, gentlemen in traveling carried their knives and forks in a case, as inns did not oitcn furnish such luxuries. Previous to the time of Elizabeth the only article to assist in eating was the jackknife, which also served for sundry other purposes. |
