What You Never Knew about Fingers, Forks, and Chopsticks

This book for young people, ages 6 & up, serves up a hilarious & informative look at how ways of eating & manners have changed through the ages. It is a well-researched tour of social history that makes the subject of how we eat more fascinating & fun than you ever imaged it could be. For example, did you know that in the Middle Ages the first books of manners told readers to wipe their greasy fingers on the tablecloth? Stone Age people invented the first knives & spoons. In some societies today, some people use their fingers to eat foods, some use chopsticks, & others use forks, knives & spoons. Guaranteed reinforced binding.Lauber, Patricia is the author of 'What You Never Knew about Fingers, Forks, and Chopsticks', published 2002 under ISBN 9780756756819 and ISBN 0756756812.