Witty Scribble

' Having rice with hands adds a unique taste to the food ' says my aunt. Though I don’t really second the opinion, majority of the Indians definitely will buy it. It’s a part of our Indian culture, something which is not considered to be uncouth or gross. Sometimes I feel, how had we been eating, without the cutlery that we have at our disposal today. Eating with finesse or 'Fine Dining' would really be a recently coined term. But, when did the cutlery come in to our lives? When did the likes of Spoon, Knives and Forks were first used?  The origin of Knives, Spoons : Shells, Animal tusks and horns, as historians predict, were used as spoons to gulp in any liquid. Predominantly, knives, made out of stones were used for eating (& not spoon shaped different items). Stone, later gave way to bronze and finally to iron in around 1000 B.C. During the same period, different variety of pottery like Bone China, Fine China and Porcelain was gaining shape and acceptance