The disappearing spoon: The once-ubiquitous utensil is being driven from tabletops Read more: The disappearing spoon: The once-ubiquitous utensil is being driven from tabletops

By Tucker Shaw
Denver Post

Consider the shape of a spoon. The gentle, unthreatening curve, calming and benign, so unlike the treacherous tines of a fork. Babies are never given forksthey'd surely lose an eye — but they are given spoons to suck on, to throw peas with, to slap on the table in glee.