[Vwoolf] marrow spoon

[Jeremy Hawthorn]

My eighteenth-century-specialist colleague points out to me that marrow 
spoons, designed specifically to eat the marrow from bones, were around 
from the early eighteenth century, as this link confirms:

http://www.homethingspast.com/marrow-spoons-scoops/

For those wanting to know how to use them, Martha Stewart will explain:

http://www.marthastewart.com/916502/how-use-18th-century-marrow-spoons#916502

This dish must have been relatively popular to ensure that a particular 
piece of cutlery emerged to facilitate its consumption.

Jeremy H