>So then, what do you and Elias think makes "eating with knife and
>fork" so "profoundly different?"
The point is not that eating with knife and fork is so profoundly different than using chopsticks. It's that using utensils at all, whether in China or Europe, is a social/historical development. Elias was writing about Europe so he talked about knives and forks.
Did you read the interview excerpt at all?