Julia Child’s kitchen was dismantled from her house and reassembled in the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, DC. As I looked at it I noticed how many knives she had. You could easily see at least one hundred. Yet I remember reading in the introduction to one of her cookbooks that she tended to use whatever knife was currently her favorite repeatedly, ignoring all of the other knives she could have chosen. I could relate, not with my knives, but with my pots and pans. I own a cabinet’s worth of pots and pans. I have cast iron, enameled cast iron, non-stick, copper bottomed, stainless steel, and even some old blue speckled aluminum. I have stockpots, woks, skillets, frying pans, double-broilers, and things I don’t even know the name of. Most of it stays in the cabinet because, much like Julia Child, I have found my favorite and use it all the time. It’s a quality chef’s pan made of Tri-Ply stainless steel that has taken the place of most of my cookware. Read the rest of this entry »
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