barbara ryan

A member of the Philip Greenspun's Homepage community since September 10, 1999

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September 10, 1999, on Kitchen Remodeling:
SHAME! SHAME! SHAME! I don't believe it - what kind of world is this when a 2 year old site dedicated to kitchens fails to mention VICTORINOX - the best knives in the world. My best advice is for you all to run out and find one now and you will never look back. I have several of the same little number which I use to prepare and consume(together with fork) a 3 course meal (the cutlery tray dishwasher doesn't fill up as quickly)- nothing they can't do and they don't get blunt. Mine are years old but I know you can still buy them - for anyone in Australia they are at the King of Knives shops. For the totally uninitiated VICTORINOX are the people who make those nifty little Swiss army knives with all the gadgets which enable you to do everything from cutting up firewood(almost) to picking your teeth. The only reason yuppie scum (myself realising that I shall never be in the yuppie scum category because the kids keep me too poor and even when they leave they'll still be there in the ...