The oldest kitchen utensils are undoubtedly the mortars and pestles that ancient cooks used to prepare grain for baking and to grind wild nuts into a thick paste. But close behind these essential kitchen items were certainly wooden spoons, to stir that paste as it bubbled in a clay pot over an open flame. Today, though, when we think of antique and vintage cooking utensils, images of mortars, pestles, and wooden spoons are accompanied by...Continue Reading