GRETER

The grater is a kitchen tool used to reduce the foods in minute fragments. Very old origin, is cited in Omero’s Iliad - Nestore “...he grated over goat cheese with a bronze grater” (Iliad, XI, 642-43) and is depicted in some Etruscan tombs of Cerveteri.

It is described by the Greek and Latin authors and Giovanni Boccacio (1313-1375), remembers it in 1350 in a short story of Decameron on the Country of Bengodi, together with Parmigiano cheese. The first “modern” grater depiction is in the Bartolomeo Scappi Work (1500-1577), published in Venice in 1570.