A double-lever corkscrew, truly the waiter’s best friend. Photo: Flickr/Nigel Wade
Sometimes I think about how crude silverware is – even the most modern, elegant Scandinavian-designed flatware.
Forks, knives and spoons are primitive tools at their core. They’re made of metal, and we use them to pin down, cut, scrape and scoop up food, and then we insert them into our mouths. It doesn’t keep me awake at night, but I do think it’s strange that we so willingly lick various forms of metal – often the same material we use to make bridges and trailer hitches – on a regular basis.
