Cutlery the term "tableware" has come into use to avoid the implication that they are made of silver. The major items of cutlery in Western culture are the knife, fork and spoon. In recent times, hybrid versions of cutlery have been made combining the functionality of different eating implements, including the spork (spoon / fork), spife (spoon / knife), and knork (knife / fork) or the sporf which combines all three. The word cutler derives from the Middle English word 'cuteler' and this in turn derives from Old French 'coutelier' which comes from 'coutel'; meaning knife (modern French: couteau). The word's
Claudia Gabel Gabel moved to Random House Children’s Books as an editor and continued her work on novels for teens and middle-grade readers. Currently, she is a senior editor at Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins. Gabel grew up in Binghamton, New York, attended Seton Catholic Central High School, and received her BA in Literature and Rhetoric from Binghamton University in 1997 and her MA in English and American Literature from Hofstra University in 2000. She resides in New York City. In 2012, Gabel married Benjamin Lindvall.. In 2016, Gabel bought Iva Marie Palmer's Gabby Garcia series and the YA science