Why would anyone drive 9 hours from Toronto to the middle of Pennsylvania and pay $150 for a 1-day course on knife sharpening? Because Dave Martell really knows his stuff, teaches well, and learning from him will save you years and tons of money trying to learn to sharpen knives really well on your own. [...]
The question of culinary authenticity has dogged me for years. In fact, it has dogged me since the day I decided to properly learn how to cook. I began my pre-cooking days by blindly applying heat to ingredients to make such classics as Shake’n Bake pork chops and macaroni in Campbells chicken noodle or minestrone [...]
Some people are in the food business because they love food. Other people are in the food business only because they feel they have to be. Unfortunately the latter type is almost always going to outnumber the former type. That doesn’t make it any less disappointing to hear that a chef-owner whom I know personally [...]
I’m just not happy with the edges that I’m putting on my knives. Though I have been sharpening my own knives for a while now, and I can tell that I am improving, I still have a long, long way to go before I’ll be able to say that my edges are good. I didn’t [...]
I’ve been telling friends and family that I’m heading down to Pennsylvania for a 1-day knife sharpening class. In almost every case, people have either given me quizzical looks or straight out asked me “Why?” Dave Martell of Japanese Knife Sharpening in Fleetwood, Pennsylvania is a professional knife sharpener who has established a strong reputation [...]
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