Ode to the Spoon

Spoon,
scoop 
formed 
by man's 
most ancient hand, 
in your design 
of metal or of wood 
we still see 
the shape 
of the first 
palm 
to which 
water 
imparted 
coolness 
and savage 
blood, 
the throb 
of bonfires and the hunt. 
Little 
spoon 
in an 
infant's 
tiny hand,
you raise 
to his mouth 
the earth's 
most 
ancient 
kiss, 
silent heritage 
of the first water to sing 
on lips that later lay 
buried beneath the sand. 


Ode to the Spoon - Pablo Neruda (1957)

With few words, Neruda describes the genesis, design and usage of this small utensil.

reference

My Spoon Is Too Big

Etymology

spoon (n.)

O.E. spon "chip, shaving," from P.Gmc. *spænuz (cf. O.N. spann, sponn "chip, splinter," Swedish spån "a wooden spoon," O.Fris. spon, M.Du. spaen, Du. spaan, O.H.G. span, Ger. Span "chip, splinter"), from PIE *spe- "long, flat piece of wood" (cf. Gk. sphen "wedge"). 

The meaning "eating utensil" is c.1300 in English (in Old English such a thing might be a metesticca), probably from O.N. sponn, which meant "spoon" as well as "chip, tile" (development of the "eating utensil" sense is specific to Middle English and Scandinavian, though M.L.G. spon also meant "wooden spatula"). Spoon-feed is from 1610s; figurative sense is attested by 1864. To be born with a silver spoon in one's mouth is from 1801.

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=spoon

Innovations on Spoons

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Playing Spoons

The Horribly Slow Murderer with the Extremely Inefficient Weapon

The Horribly Slow Murderer with the Extremely Inefficient Weapon (in italiano L'assassino orribilmente lento con l'arma estremamente inefficace) è un cortometraggio del 2008, scritto e diretto da Richard Gale. Il film è stato girato interamente in California in 22 giorni di lavoro, con un budget di 600 dollari. Filmato con una videocamera digitale Panasonic HVX200, il corto è stato editato con il software Final Cut Pro dal regista stesso.

The Horribly Slow Murderer with the Extremely Inefficient Weapon is a 10 minute film short that was released in 2008. It was filmed entirely in California over the course of 22 days. It was written, directed, and narrated by Richard Gale. The weapon referred to in the title is a spoon.

The film won the Special Jury Prize at the Austin Fantastic Fest, the Best Short Film award at the Fantasia Film Festival, and the Citizen's Choice Award and the Grand Prize for Short Film at the Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival, and was named the Best Short Film of 2009 by Rue Morgue Magazine.

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