Demitasse spoon
{{Short description|Spoon smaller than a teaspoon}}
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A demitasse spoon is a diminutive spoon, smaller than a teaspoon.{{cite web|url=http://www.antique-central.com/antique-demitasse-spoons.shtml |title=Looking for Info on Demitasse Spoons?|publisher=Antique-central.com |access-date=2011-01-18 | quote=Demitasse spoons are small, approximately three to four and a half inches in length, metal, usually silver but also in gold and stainless, with a wide bowl, and originally used to accompany coffee and tea in Europe and now North America.}} It is traditionally used for coffee drinks in specialty cups, such as a demitasse, and for spooning cappuccino froth. It is also used as a baby spoon,{{cite book|author1=Annette B. Natow|author2=Jo-Ann Heslin|title=No-Nonsense Nutrition for Your Baby's First Year|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hg-W4OPqqVAC&pg=PR11|date=August 1988|publisher=Jo Ann Heslin|isbn=978-0-13-623158-5|pages=11–|quote=The shape of a demitasse spoon is more appropriate.}}
{{cite journal
|jstor=3467526
|title=Establishing Good Food Habits
|journal=The American Journal of Nursing
|year=1950|quote=We have found that a spoon with a bowl which is long and narrow, like a demitasse spoon, fits the baby's mouth better than one with a broad, round bowl.
|volume=50
|pages=155–157
|last1=Weng
|first1=Lorraine
|issue=3