
For as long as I can remember, my mother's favorite device for chopping vegetables was a thin slicing knife with a broken tip, which she held as she would a paring knife, using her thumb as a kind of strike plate.
For the full article, check out the new issue of Wine Spectator, on newsstands December 15, 2001.
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