Volume 1, Issue 1

May 5, 2016

Modern
inventions for
food now

UtensilThen & Now

Catherine De
Medici inventions in eating
and more:

Utensils

Pasta, sherbet,
truffles, etc.

Laws, and
rules

Was a good
queen consort
to King henry ii
for France.

By: Marin Pearce

Have you
ever imaged
what it would
be like eating
our food
without a
fork? Have
you thought
about what it
was like in the renaissance
time in France where they
didnt know what a fork was
until 1532 when Catherine De
Medici came over from Florence, Italy to France where
she brought with her the fork
and foods that the French
citizens had never seen or
never heard of.
When Catherine was 13 1/2,
she was entitled to get married to Henry the ii which
later became King Henry the
ii. When Catherine did come
over to France to get married
she had nothing, she was not
close to being wealthy but once
she got married she was the
finest of them all. But when
traveling over she did bring
over some foods that the
French had never seen before
and also Catherine brought
over the fork, which she then
latter on taught the French to
eat their food with. She was
said to have brought over
artichokes, aspics, baby peas,
broccoli, cakes, candied vegetables, cream puffs, custards,
ices, lettuce, milk-fed veal,

melon seeds, parsley, pasta,

puff pastry, quenelles, scallopine, sherbet, spinach, sweetbreads, truffles and zabaglione
Now think about all that food
not existing! How would that
feel, eating something else besides the lovely pasta and
sweetbreads and truffles! Our
life would be completely different without these foods and
dishes. Catherine was not only
known for bringing over the
foods but was also known for
influencing others in a way that
other queen consorts werent
Catherine De Medici queen of France
usually known for. She had
helpful tips and wasnt like
other queens where all the
functions and purposes that it
wanted was royalty but Cathemade, many said made diners
rine was a person who treated
less likely to drop food, and the
her citizens and servants the
curved tines served as a scoop
same and gave much pride and
so people did not have to conrespect for them. After she
stantly switch to a spoon while
found out about her husbands
eating So do you think that
mistress, Catherine soon after
eating with a fork is an ideal
did not care about her husband
thing to use when eating? Do
you give props to the Frenchman and woman for eating
with their three fingers for hundreds of years before Catherine
De Medici came and introduced the fork and the amazing
wonderful foods? I sure hope
you do because that was a tuff
time and I sure hope we dont
and his decisions but after she
have to go through that again.
had all 10 of his children she
was a little bit on her own.
Then she decided to bring out
the trusty fork and teach the
French more about it and what
its used for. The French people where enamored by its