Cooking: Caution When Cooking Turkeys on Thanksgiving Day!
-Fires occur more during Thanksgiving while deep frying a turkey
-1,000 Fires each year involved with deep frying a turkey
-NFPA says deep fryer fires cause an average of 5 deatha, 60 injuries and more thatn 15 million in propery damage.
-Too much oil in the fryer pot, when putting in the turkey it can overflow and the spilling oil can catch fire.
http://www.sacbee.com/2010/11/03/3155670/grease-and-cooking-fires-double.html

How did Forks Originate?
-The 1st utensile used as a fork was a twig.
-Acctual forks were only used to cut meat or hold it while cutting,
-1st forks were long and two pronged and made of iron, hard wood, and bone.
-Until the 17 century people in France ate with their fingers.
-The 1st person to use a fork to eat was a woman in Venice in the 11th century, had a small golden fork made.
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=BgsQAAAAIBAJ&sjid=I4sDAAAAIBAJ&pg=7020,1599642&dq=where+did+cooking+originated&hl=en

Why are forks today made three pronged?