Most bizarre was the smart spoon, which is designed to encourage you to eat more slowly - if you spoon food into your mouth rapidly the spoon handle throbs with a warning signal.

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For multiple courses, choose the fork or spoon furthest from your plate for your first course and work your way inward.

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Ways to get it in your kid's diet: Make pesto and spoon over chicken breasts or stir into cooked pasta.

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Apply all that new technology to an ancient lexicon of good manners that precluded not only the preparation but the cutting of food at Chinese tables, rich or poor, and you have no need for any tableware beyond your chopsticks, a couple of serving pieces, and a slippery porcelain spoon for soup.

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