Food On A Sword
August, 1956
Food on a SwordJabbing a long blade through several chunks of meat and nursing them over an open flame is one of the oldest methods of cookery known to man.Nowadays, it's often little more than a dazzling act of bravado, but in the old times it was a very practical necessity. There were no forks or knives: even gourmets ate with their fingers, and it was simplicity itself to pluck the juicy morsels off the blade, one at a time, and eat them like bon-bons. Dainty ladies of ancient Greece had a sp...