New Book: History of Cutlery

by Andrew Barrow, Posted Aug 1st 2006 @ 5:03PM

I saw this book in my local bookshop last week; but it was shrink-wrapped and the spotty herbet wouldn't let me unwrap it to look inside!

Still what I can tell you about Feeding Desire: Design and the Tools of the Trade 1550-2005 is that it is all about cutlery. Yep a book on spoons. Oh and knives and forks too. The book has been produced to accompany an exhibition at the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum which runs from now until the end of October. Feeding Desire showcases the Museum's permanent collection of American and European cutlery. Expanding on the content of the exhibition the book offers seven original essays, accompanied by over two hundred colour and black-and-white illustrations, that relate the different histories of the humble knife, spoon, and fork, and reveal how cutlery has influenced food, fashion, design, mobility, hygiene, and consumption over the centuries.

The book is available on Amazon UK for £31.75 and Amazon USA for $40.95

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