Exhibition:
Feeding Desire: Design and the Tools of the Trade, 1500-2005

Where:
Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum (Smithsonian Institution), New York

When:
May 5 through October 29, 2006

The Exhibition will address the development of utensil forms, innovations in production and materials, etiquette, and flatware as social commentary.

The Feeding Desire Symposium, examining the history of cutlery and the dining ritual, will be held Saturday, May 6. Update: The symposium has been sold out, but the exhibition runs through October 29.