Matthew Bartik is metal-bending forks into little pieces of art. YOu can visit his homepage and directly buy one of his works, they are not expensive.
If you have some time to spare let me babble a little about forks. Can you imagine there were times when no one in Europe used a fork? No, they didn’t have chopsticks either – they only used knives and spoons! Have you ever tried to eat a porterhouse-steak with a spoon? No wonder millions starved to death. When a Byzantine princess brought her own set of table-forks to Venice, she outraged populace and clergy by refusing to eath with her hands:
“Instead of eating with her fingers like other people, the princess cuts up her food into small pieces and eats them by means of little golden forks with two prongs.”*
“God in his wisdom has provided man with natural forks – his fingers. Therefore it is an insult to Him to substitute artificial metallic forks for them when eating.”*
*James Cross Giblin: “From Hand to Mouth” New York, Thomas Y. Crowell, 1987
When I think about it: Chinese still don’t use the fork…
Jerry Seinfeld talking about chopsticks…
Speaking about cutlery: Don’t you think Bruce Campbell and Uri Geller look exactly like twins?
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