Chopsticks are used in a huge portion of the world across much of Asia. About 1.5 billion people are covered in the chopsticks sphere. Different cultures have slightly different variations of chopsticks. Chinese chopsticks will tend to be long and round, Korean chopsticks, which are flatter, and often made of metal, and Japanese chopsticks tend to be round, and very, very pointy. While chopsticks are actually really commonplace in American society today, there was definitely a time in the late 1800s where this idea that Asian men, because they ate rice with sticks, were of a different quality than American men who ate proper meat with knife and fork. But, when China and the United States began their diplomatic engagement in the 1970s, Richard Nixon, Henry Kissinger had to practice eating with chopsticks. What’s been really interesting to see is that as Asian cuisine has moved from the east into the west, chopsticks have become part of the experience. There’s evidence of chopsticks as long ago as the Shang dynasty, which was about 3,000 years ago. And they loved tripods during the Shang dynasty, so, when you cook with these big tripods, chopsticks were actually really useful because it was a way for you to stir and to reach without getting burned as the water was boiling in these really big pots.