Utensil Usage Quotes

I don't know how to cook at all.

So Stapes conducted a dinner for just the two of us, then informed me of a dozen small but important mistakes I had made. Setting down a dirty utensil was considered crude, for example. That meant it was perfectly acceptable to lick one's knife clean. In fact, if you didn't want to dirty your napkin it was the only seemly thing to do.

I was expected to sit at the table, learn how to eat properly.

Know how to behave at a fine restaurant, which is a telltale measure of social maturity.

I got so used to using chopsticks that using a fork and knife is weird.

I don't understand why they keep forks and spoons on the table while serving biryani. You are supposed to eat it with your hand, and I prefer it that way.

I remember so clearly from when I was five years old, my mom and dad arguing over - not over whether it was better, but whether it was proper or whether it was correct to eat with a fork or to eat with your hands, like we do in Sri Lanka. Proper. Like, what is the correct way to eat?

The process and organization leading up to cooking the egg can tell you a lot about the cook.

It took me a little while to remember how to use a fork. You know, we don't use forks in the penitentiary. You get a spoon.