Fact 1: The word cutlery comes from the Old French coutelier, from coutel meaning knife. The first mention of it in England is in a tax return from 1297.
Fact 2: A spork is a cross between a fork and a spoon. A splade is a cross between a knife, fork and spoon - a spork with a blade.
Fact 3: The tall chef’s hat or toque blanche traditionally had a hundred pleats to represent the number of ways an egg could be cooked.
Fact 4: Onions contain a mild antibiotic that fights infections, soothes burns, tames bee stings and relieves the itch of athletes foot.
Fact 5: To make one kilo of honey bees have to visit 4 million flowers, travelling a distance equal to 4 times around the earth.
Fact 6: Cooking is good for the brain. Cooking also encouraged us to socialise, which expanded our neural pathways and made our brains grow larger
Fact 7: It’s now thought that our ancestor, Homo erectus, first used fire to soften meat 1.8 million years ago.