Article: The disappearing dessert fork Has the spoon won the role as cutlery of choice with our sweets?

Sea changes in dining out are rarely announced. It's not as though the maitre d' stands at the front of the restaurant and declares that from here on out, butter will be replaced by little saucers of olive oil for dipping bread. Or that, in up-and-coming eateries, iceberg lettuce is now verboten, replaced by mesclun.

But things do change. One question that has occurred to me lately is the mystery of the disappearing dessert forks. Where did they go? When dessert is set before me and my companions at casual but upscale restaurants, why are we given only spoons? Has there been a raid, a spiriting away of all the smaller forks in the land? A spoon

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