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‘Don’t underestimate the power of cutlery’
How did the knife, fork and spoon come to dominate western eating habits? Food writer and historian Bee Wilson tells the BBC’s Manuela Saragosa that entire civilisations have been founded on the ways food is cooked and eaten.
(Photo: Bee Wilson. Credit: Natasha Runciman)
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