Each piece of wood had a giant fork driven into it, and a huge metal ring (no doubt to enable elephants or cranes to lift each piece), but in the cobbled streets of St Ives we had to manhandle each piece.
To split an English muffin, you use a dinner fork and drive it into the sides of the muffin with the tines parallel to the faces of the muffin and about half-way between the faces.
Erick drove a fork into a goopy American egg yolk and bled it into his American potatoes.
"The Great American Dream is to buy a five-year-old car," said Mike Hassinger, 51, who for 30 years drove a fork-lift truck at Firestone.
When I first drove through Forks in 1990, plaintive yard signs read, "This Family Lives on Timber Dollars"; bumper stickers asked, "Are You an Environmentalist or Do You Work for a Living?" and offered recipes for how best to roast or fry the northern spotted owl.
Here he did what politicians do when given a hi-vis vest: he drove a fork-lift truck.
But gentleman farmers can clean the barn (-688), milk Bossy by hand (-258), fork straw (-688), drive the harvester (-215) and shovel grain (-473).
"Every day, we use various tools, say a knife and fork and we drive a car and, if we use these tools for a long time, you see that those tools are just an extension of your body," said Harry Asada, the Ford Prof of Engineering in MIT's Department of Mechanical Engineering.
He spoke to writer as they drove up the snowy Fork North valley toward the Canadian border, where it happened.
Mr. Horton said Southold and Riverhead on the North Fork, and also Shelter Island, were burdened by traffic caused by the large numbers of ferry passengers who drove between the Orient Point ferry terminal and the South Fork.
We drove into the mountains, tracing the river's east fork.
