Çatallar yıllardır Avrupa'da ve Yakın Doğu'da kullanılıyordu, ama yalnızca yemek pişirmek için. - Forks were used for many years in Europe and the Near East, but only for cooking.
the area around the eastern Mediterranean; from Turkey to northern Africa and eastward to Iran; the site of such ancient civilizations as Phoenicia and Babylon and Egypt and the birthplace of Judaism and Christianity and Islam; had continuous economic and political turmoil in the 20th century; "the Middle East is the cradle of Western civilization"