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Posts tagged “knives”

Weekend Project: Sharpen Your Knives!

Trust us, knife sharpening is not a mystic art and it doesn't have to be a safety hazard to your finger tips! With a little practice, it's easy to do at home, and all you need is a sharpening stone an...

What's the Best Kind of Cutting Board? Plastic, Wood, or Bamboo

While shopping for a new cutting board recently, we heard all kinds of conflicting advice on which was the most green, the most sanitary and the least damaging to our knives. So we're setting the reco...

NYC Events: Free Knife Skills Demo, and Other Hands-on Classes

Whenever we encounter someone who likes cooking but doesn't quite love it, one of two things is almost certainly true. Either they're not cooking with a sharp knife, or they don't really know how to u...

Cooking Advice from Pears On A Willow Tree

In the book Pears On A Willow Tree by Leslie Pietrzyk, which chronicles four generations of Polish-American women passing down culinary traditions to one another, the matriarch of the family tells her...

NYC Event: Knife Sharpening at Broadway Panhandler on Saturday March 15

If you haven't sharpened your knives in a while, maybe helping out a worthy cause will inspire you to get the job done. This Saturday from 11 a.m. - 5 p.m., Broadway Panhandler is hosting a Knife Sha...