
From the Vault: The Invention of the Spoon, Part 1
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The Rise of the Scoopable Bread
Spoons came with the rise of the pharaohs. Food would have largely been consumed prior to this by hand at the table. A lot of culture is focus very much on, like, scoopable breads that function as a kind of spoon. And even that might be the cultural precursor to foods you might not think of as very nected to culinary history. That's an edible spoon, ai't the chipeh.
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