There is a city in Germany called “Essen” which means “eat”, and “Stahl” means “steel”. So we have from Hampton Forge the Essenstahl flatware set. “Eat Steel” sounds like a good name for a Heavy Metal band. Strange that we don’t see much copper for cutlery. For color I mean, not construction. We see silver, […]

Picnics and barbeques, that’s all I can seem to think of this time of year. And it’s a thought on a monday morning to get me through the week, how many days till the next outdoor culinary adventure? I found this nifty set of disposable cutlery while looking for the metal version. I call this […]

For some reason the two most popular influences on cutlery design that I’ve seen are nature (trees and flowers) and music. Why music? Well, there’s the “fiddleback” design, which is the flared end of the handle looking like the body of a violin or fiddle that we’ve seen before. And now there is this “Treble […]