This is the type of cloche, primarily used for baking bread. There are also other earthenware “cloches” which are using most often for chicken or stews, and are more casserole like in shape. Romertopf is one manufacturer.

Perfect for the larger cuts of meat, fruit and vegetable.

http://www.wusthof.com

See entry for 3 inch paring knife.

A slightly longer knife may be preferred by some users,
depending on what feels comfortable in their hand.

The most versatile of all parers: for mincing shallots, onions and herbs as well as cleaning and cutting vegetables.

http://www.wusthof.com/

I have found that the best stainless steel kitchen tools seem to come from AMCO. For a while these were the standard tools for sale at William-Sonoma. I’ve also seen them used on Martha Stewart’s show. Practically indestructible. Definitely worth purchasing, you’ll have them all your life!

AMCO website through this link
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I have found that the best stainless steel kitchen tools seem to come from AMCO. For a while these were the standard tools for sale at William-Sonoma. I’ve also seen them used on Martha Stewart’s show. Practically indestructible. Definitely worth purchasing, you’ll have them all your life!

AMCO website through this link
http://www.focuspg.com/focuspg/catalog.cfm?dest=dir&linkon=Section&linkid=13

Cook´s or Chef’s Knife

No kitchen is complete without at least one of these knives.
It is the most essential of all knives used in the kitchen.
For the coarse or fine chopping, mincing and dicing of virtually every kind of food.

Perfectly balanced, it is an extension of your hand.

http://www.wusthof.com

san·guine /ˈsæŋgwɪn/ [sang-gwin]

–adjective
1. cheerfully optimistic, hopeful, or confident: a sanguine disposition; sanguine expectations.
2. reddish; ruddy: a sanguine complexion.
3. (in old physiology) having blood as the predominating humor and consequently being ruddy-faced, cheerful, etc.
4. bloody; sanguinary.
5. blood-red; red.
6. Heraldry. a reddish-purple tincture.

–noun
7. a red iron-oxide crayon used in making drawings.
[Origin: 1275–1325; ME sanguyne a blood-red cloth < OF sanguin < L sanguineus bloody, equiv. to sanguin-, s. of sanguis blood + -eus -eous]

—Related forms
san·guine·ly, adverb
san·guin·i·ty, san·guin·ness, noun

—Synonyms 1. enthusiastic, buoyant, animated, lively, spirited.
—Antonyms 1. morose.
Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1)
Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2006.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/sanguine

My former congressman wrote this.
He is now my senator from Ohio.
He is a genuine guy.
I like him, even though he is a politician!
In the mold of Metzenbaum I hope!