Gabriella Salad Fork Set (Set of 6) - 19 cm Length - Handcrafted in Italy - Pewter & Stainless Steel
The salad fork is slightly broader than the dinner fork for proving greater leverage when cutting thick veins of lettuce or tough vegetables served in salad.
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The salad fork can also be used for appetizer courses, and whilst slightly wider than a dessert spoon, it shares similar characteristics - its extra width can be useful for cutting firm desserts such as deep crust pies and cheesecakes.
The fork has a recent history in Britain, and there was a great reluctance by our ancestors to use them, as people generally ate with their fingers, including Queen Anne, as late as the 17th Century. Thomas Coryat pioneered the use of forks in Britain in the early 1600s following his long walking tours around Europe, where he noted that the Italians, who had been using forks since the 11th Century in Venice, ‘cannot by any means indure to have [their] dish touched with fingers, seeing all men’s fingers are not alike cleane’. However, it was still many decades before there was a general acceptance to use forks instead of fingers. It wasn’t until the reign of Charles II that a distinction between dinner and dessert forks developed, and until the second half of the 18th Century before the now-commonplace four-tined forks appeared.
This gorgeous salad fork is hand-made from pewter and stainless steel, both produced in Brescia, Lombardy, and fused to combine strength and an ergonomic design. It forms part of the extensive Gabriella range of cutlery.
The Gabriella range of flatware and serving ware is a simple, but elegant, design with rectangular-shaped handles, featuring an attractive decorative line all the way around the edge, giving the cutlery a contemporary feel. The soft, warm hues of the pewter, combined with the simplicity in design, adds sophistication to any table setting, formal or informal.
The pewter handles of Gabriella cutlery are made using a special technique: the molten pewter is directly cast onto the steel tips of the cutlery; this process forms what is really a single element in which the "hardness" of the steel discreetly dissolves into the "soft" surface of the pewter handle, more suitable for contact with the hands.
Size: Length 19 cm
Weight: 75 g per fork
Materials Used: Pewter, Stainless Steel
Ref: CT0103121
Designer: Alberto Tabellini
100% Lead Free
All Cosi Tabellini Pewter is 100% lead-free, so it is totally food & drink safe, and is both EU and US FDA approved.
Packaging
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