At the dinner table, he takes her plate and cuts her food into bite-size pieces.

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By the late eighteenth century in Europe, people were slicing their food into bite-size morsels and carrying them to their mouths with forks those formerly weird things, Wilson calls them.

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The rest landed on tables at home, at clubs laid with linen and then with platters upon platters of food, everything bite-size, the easier to sip tea or coffee, eggnog or mulled wine with.

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