{"id":142,"date":"2007-01-22T03:22:10","date_gmt":"2007-01-22T06:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/index.php\/2007\/01\/22\/the-beauty-of-tools\/"},"modified":"2007-01-22T03:22:10","modified_gmt":"2007-01-22T06:22:10","slug":"the-beauty-of-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/2007\/the-beauty-of-tools","title":{"rendered":"The Beauty of Tools"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"New knife magnet with my favorite kitchen tools.\" id=\"image141\" src=\"http:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/Knife-Magnet-2.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<div align=\"left\">Carrie and I just set up a knife magnet in our kitchen. I put all my knives up there and it was just really beautiful. Each of these knives has a little story.<\/div>\n<div align=\"left\">From left to right:<\/div>\n<div align=\"left\">\n<ul>\n<li>A Bunmei tako-hiki, a wedding present.<\/li>\n<li>On of my grandfather&#8217;s Sabatiers, which he gave to my dad. I&#8217;ve got another one that needs work that&#8217;s not here.<\/li>\n<li>A $10 Chinese cleaver. This one didn&#8217;t have a story until I started making dinner tonight. See below.<\/li>\n<li>My Mac Superior santoku. This was a housewarming present from my friend Jeff, who&#8217;d damaged a knife of mine in college, like 9 years ago. It was really touching. Also, it&#8217;s a bitchin&#8217; knife. It&#8217;s great for making many teeny tiny slices of garlic or mushrooms.<\/li>\n<li>The other of my grandfather&#8217;s Sabatiers. Note the nicks in the spine. That&#8217;s because my grampa used to whang it through mutton bones with a hammer. They know how to make a knife over at Sabatier.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div align=\"left\">So, the picture below. I was making cannelini con polpetti (&#8220;little octopuses&#8221;. We usually make this with squid and call it &#8220;squiddybeans&#8221; but with octopus, we were calling it &#8220;pussybeans&#8221;) tonight and I didn&#8217;t want to  use all of them. So I decided to chop off a hunk to defrost for dinner. See how there are two cuts? The first one, the blade kind of twisted in my hand. I also noticed that it wasn&#8217;t where I expected the strike to be. Then I remembered that <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Aikido of Northampton\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aikidoofnorthampton.org\/\">sensei<\/a> often tells me that I turn my hips too far. I lined myself up like he&#8217;s always telling me to, and&#8230;<\/div>\n<div align=\"left\">\n<div align=\"left\">\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Kiai!\" id=\"image140\" src=\"http:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/Split-board.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carrie and I just set up a knife magnet in our kitchen. I put all my knives up there and it was just really beautiful. Each of these knives has a little story. From left to right: A Bunmei tako-hiki, a wedding present. On of my grandfather&#8217;s Sabatiers, which he gave to my dad. I&#8217;ve &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/2007\/the-beauty-of-tools\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Beauty of Tools&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-making-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}