Table of Contents

8 Foreword by J. Kenji López-Alt



10 Introduction



14 Conical Steamer Andrew Zimmern



20 An Old Colander Jeremy Sewall



24 Knife Block Jonathan Benno



29 Switchblade & Pocketknife Jonathon Sawyer



34 Copper-Bottom Revere Ware Pots Sarah Schafer



38 Baker’s Spatula Kyle Mendenhall



42 Chasseur Sauté Pan Robert Wiedmaier



46 Cast Iron Pan and Silver Spoon Rob Newton



50 Biscuit Cutter Tandy Wilson



54 Copper Jam Pot Nicole Krasinski



58 Boning Knife Chris Shepherd



62 Antique Cleaver Steven Satterfield



67 Metal Skewer Stuart Brioza



72 Meme’s Cast Iron Skillet Virginia Willis



76 Universal Meat Grinder Norman Van Aken



80 Balloon Whisk Dale Levitski



84 Plating Spoon Zachary Espinosa



88 Oyster Knife Steve McHugh



92 Wood-Burning Indoor Grill Fry Ford



96 Wooden Spoon Kevin Gillespie



100 Rolling Pin Natalie Chanin



104 Sharkskin Wasabi Grater Ken Oringer



107 Grandfather’s Skillet Linton Hopkins



110 Mortar and Pestle Alon Shaya



114 Coconut Bench Scraper Bruce Sherman



118 Fluted Parisian Scoop Timothy Hollingsworth



122 Mini Meat Fork Slade Rushing



126 Hand-Crank Cheese Grater Michael Scelfo



131 Wooden Spoon David Guas



136 Microplane Sean Brasel



140 Copper Bowl Anne Willan



145 Cake Stand Rebekah Turshen



151 Double Boiler Chris Kimball



156 Tarte Tatin Pan Seth Raynor



162 Collection of Wooden Spoons Margot McCormack



166 Depression-Glass Juicer Jody Adams



171 KitchenAid Stand Mixer Joanne Chang



177 Index



179 Recipe Index



181 Contributors

About the Author

A Nashville-based food writer, cookbook author, and magazine editor with a not-so-secret obsession with oysters, Erin Byers-Murray loves telling stories about farmers, cooks, kitchens, and local food communities. She is the author of Shucked: Life on a New England Oyster Farm (2011) and the co-author, along with award winning Boston chef Jeremy Sewall, of of The New England Kitchen: Fresh Takes on Seasonal Recipes (2014). Currently the co-editor of Nashville Lifestyles magazine, Byers-Murray was also one of the co-founders of Dirty Pages, a culinary storytelling project celebrating shared, passed-down food memories, launched in early 2015. Before moving to Nashville from Boston, she worked a writer and editor at Boston magazine and DailyCandy.com. In her spare time, she writes for various publications including Food & Wine, The Local Palate, Tasting Table, FoodNetwork.com, LuckyPeach.com, AOL Travel, and Wine & Spirits Magazine.



She currently lives in Nashville with her husband and two children. J. Kenji López-Alt is the managing culinary director of SeriousEats.com, author of the James Beard Award-nominated column The Food Lab, and a columnist for Cooking Light. His work has appeared in numerous publications including the Wall Street Journal, the Boston Globe, Wired Magazine, and Men's Health. He lives in San Francisco with his wife Adriana and two dogs, Jamón and Shabu.