Dinesh's photos with the keyword: A HISTORY OF WESTERN SOCEITY

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fight_Between_Carnival_and_Lent The literary theme of the struggle between personifications of Shrove Tuesday and Lent dates as far back as the year 400 with the Psychomachia. The 13th Century French poem La Bataille de Caresme et de Charnage describes a symbolic battle between different foods, meat against fish.[2] A likely graphic precursor of the painting is a 1558 Frans Hogenberg print in which the personifications of lean and fat are driven together on carts by their supporters. The supporters attack each other with fish, waffles, cookies and eggs.

Figure 1 Boccaccio's vision of Petrarch. Petrarch was the hero and inspiration of generations of humanists: writers, scholars and book collectors

{Fingers, spoons and knives were still the most popular choices when it came to actual eating. Some of the earliest known table forks made their debut in Ancient Egypt. The Qijia culture (2400-1900 BC) that resided in part of present day China also are known to have used forks.} Source: WWW