Tools That Outlast Plastic

Updated: Oct 6

Plastic spoons crack, melt, or end up forgotten at the bottom of drawers.Handmade spoons and ladles from Tunisia hold a different story.

A Material That Lives Twice

In Tunisia, spoons are often carved from olive wood. The same tree that gives fruit for oil also offers branches for tools.

Nothing is wasted. Nothing is rushed. A tree lives its cycle, and the wood continues its life in kitchens.

Plastic feels light but empty. Olive wood holds weight without heaviness.

It softens with use, absorbs the rhythm of meals, and carries a patina that grows richer over time. Every scratch is memory, not damage.

Factories make plastic by the ton. They shape it fast, to be forgotten fast.

Artisans carve each spoon slowly, by hand, to last.

One belongs to a system that ends in waste. The other belongs to a system that continues.

A Tunisian spoon is not decoration. It stirs couscous, ladles harira, serves salads.

It is washed, dried, and used again. And again. And again.

Where plastic weakens, these tools strengthen.

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