Dear George: When you think of it, the knife, fork, and spoon is a rather ratty and illogical collection of table utensils, suggesting a piecemeal process of assembling them.

Those are like a knife, fork and spoon. They are all utilitarian tools to use, but the philosophical calculus behind them is what’s in our national interest.” That’s all reasonable.

We've seen nesting sets of outdoor dining utensils before, and even sets that stick together via embedded magnets. The EATi Mag system, however, combines 10 tools in what looks like a simple knife ...

Make a cut and switch hands, put your knife down at the edge of your plate and transfer your fork from the left hand to your right. Turn it so the tines are facing upward and take a bite.

Admit it, you’d be lost without the fork. Sure, you could manage with a spoon and knife, but the fork is the multi-tasker at your table, the tool with a never ending number of functions on your ...