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|pages=384
|publisher=W.W. Norton & Co
|date=September 2007
|isbn=978-0393061789
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Last weekend I had one of the most fun afternoons in the kitchen that I've had in a long time. Despite the fact that I've been cooking for well over four decades I've only just found out how to hold a knife correctly and how to use it to prepare food properly. It didn't take long to discover that it was easier to do it the right way and a good deal safer - I'm renowned in these parts for my ability to cut my hands.
I'd like to thank the publishers for sending this book to The Bookbag.
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|name=Magda
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|comment= I have been wondering if the reason I never seem to use chef's knife is because I never had a decent one - I use paring knife and a shorter version (a vegetable knife??) a lot, and one which I don't know what it is
- in the same size group as chef's knife, but a longer, thinner and bouncier.I am contemplating buying poultry scissors, though.
...but I am still tempted by this(I was taught how to cut tomatoes and generally use "claw" grip when working in a sandwich bar, by my Italian-French boss & the proprietor).
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|name=Sue
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|comment= I wouldn't dream of taking the strings out of celery is if I was chopping it, say for a Bolognese sauce, but if I'm serving it in larger pieces as a cooked vegetable in its own right then the strings can be a little off-putting. I remove them then.
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|name=Magda
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|comment= I agree, it's very stringy, especially when cooked. In Poland it was almost unknown until recently - we used celeriac root instead in stock etc. Great for salad (much tastier raw, though not as freshly flavoured).
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