[Vwoolf] marrow spoon

[Jean Mallinson]

These links make  fascinating reading.  I can't thank you enough for 
providing them.
Jean Mallinson

On 5/25/2015 1:02 PM, Jeannette Smyth wrote:
> Chef Fergus Henderson serves them with his famous roast marrow bones at St. John in London today. Can be seen in the photographs of the cooking of his famous dish in this piece:
> http://www.eater.com/2014/10/15/6926263/fergus-henderson-roast-bone-marrow-st-john-london
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> Jeannette Smyth
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> On May 25, 2015, at 2:24 AM, Jeremy Hawthorn wrote:
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>> 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:
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>> http://www.homethingspast.com/marrow-spoons-scoops/
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>> For those wanting to know how to use them, Martha Stewart will explain:
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>> http://www.marthastewart.com/916502/how-use-18th-century-marrow-spoons#916502
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>> This dish must have been relatively popular to ensure that a particular piece of cutlery emerged to facilitate its consumption.
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>> Jeremy H
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