Lovespoons – Gastro Obscura


Suitors in the United Kingdom and Scandinavia once professed their affections using a wooden spoon. This 17th-century courtship ritual allowed young men to demonstrate their woodworking craft while offering their beloved a useful, household tool. Should she accept, the spoon became a token of engagement.
Source: Lovespoons – Gastro Obscura


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