SPOONS

Spoons are one of the oldest human tools. Almost everyone on earth has a spoon or two. The first spoons were made out of seashells and even today many spoons have a seashell design on the handle. It’s true what they say, I used to work at The White House and one day I actually used George Washington’s cereal spewne. People weren’t too particular about spelling in those days, and some of the fun olde spellings for spoon are spoune, spone, spown, spoyne, spoone, spoine, and speaun. People spelled words any way they could. Don’t you wish your English teacher would accept that?

The first spoons I collected come from Italy, where ice cream is called gelato. I saved ‘em because they were different than any spoon I’d seen before. Gelato spoons have flat bottoms and look like shovels. They’re really great at scraping up the last ice cream from the bottom of the cup. In Milan, Italy, I used one of ‘em to shovel in an entire Copa di Spaghetti, a Italian vanilla-and-strawberry ice cream treat that, just for fun, looks like a plate of spaghetti and meatballs.

The blue spoon [in the lower right hand corner] has a sliding yellow thingamajiggy which turns it into an adjustable measuring spoon.