After reading last week's article on the origin of the spoon/fork combo, known as the spork, Nell Maha of Sarasota e-mailed asking whether I was familiar with the runcible spoon used by Owl and ...

Late February in the North-East: winter’s lost its novelty, the holidays are over, and all we have left is mud, bad weather and dirty, used-looking snow. It’s hunker down season, the time for Netflix ...

On a recent, sweltering Saturday afternoon, Sonia Booth's Bloomingdale rowhouse is quickly taking on the look of a preschool classroom. She and Malaka Gharib, founder of the Runcible Spoon, have ...

A spoon that has little fork-like tines on the end is called, by most normal people, a “spork,” which I think we can all agree is a terrible-sounding word. At best, the word “spork” sounds awkward and ...

Lear himself muddied the waters of runcible’s meaning, using it variously in his poems to conjure a “runcible cat,” “runcible goose,” “runcible hat,” “runcible wall,” and “the Rural Runcible Raven.” ...

WASHINGTON — Malaka Gharib thinks most writers and publications take food too seriously. She, on the other hand, likes to play with it. “I’m not an expert on restaurants in D.C. or an expert in local ...

Cotton Bergeron’s ‘runcible spoon,’ again in pieces after more than a half-century of generational family use, sits atop a modern copy of Edward Lear’s illustration in his 1871 poem, ‘Owl and Pussy ...