"The Fox and the Crane" is one of my favorite Aesop's fables. I am surprised it is not better known. Glad it's used as the cover for this edition.Whenever I see Westerners trying to use chopsticks to pick up food from a plate, it reminds me of this delightful fable. I of course act like the fox and laugh at the silly attempts. It seems funny to me when people borrow ideas halfway, only based on hows and whats without any understanding of the whys.Chopsticks is designed to shove food from the bowl into the mouth and plates work best when food is delivered to the mouth by forks or fingers. Different tools are designed for different purposes to accommondate different arrangements.Strange enough, crane is revered by the Chinese and the Japanese and is the embodiment of elegance and other lofty spiritual concepts. Fox on the other hand embodies different meanings.I bet this is news even to Aesop.