Kalmia wrote:
>
> How timely of you to post this. Just last night, I was re-reading
> "Dear and Glorious Physician", the tale about gospel author St. Luke,
> and in one scene, he's picking up his fork and spoon.. I stopped
> right away and thought about Caldwell's goof. I was told at one of
> those old time suppers that we had to make do with no forks as they
> were not known in 16th century France.

The article has a picture of a French fork and knife
attributed to the late 1500's to early 1600's, so
somebody thinks late 16th century France had forks.