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The Strange Way We Eat: Bee Wilson’s ‘Consider the Fork’

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It’s a piercing, sharp weapon associated with the Devil. How did this unlikely tool become the West’s most popular and indispensable utensil? Bee Wilson on its history in Consider the Fork.

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