tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1551919020263278449.post4540844461604327495..comments2016-10-02T21:46:36.959+09:00Comments on One Delicious Year: Fancy FishUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1551919020263278449.post-11326179870083984492009-03-05T13:16:00.000+09:002009-03-05T13:16:00.000+09:00Thanks for the pricing information: I'm starting t...Thanks for the pricing information: I'm starting to think about next Christmas already... It's an easy sell since I can promise good things to all those who fund such gifts (=my wife). When I lived in Berlin a friend of mine was given a top-of-the-line Japanese knife for his birthday - worth about $300 if memory serves - and he spent days just cutting random foodstuffs and ogling the results. I remember he cut his birthday cake into slivers about a millimetre thick!<BR/><BR/>The wider context of the Bob Kramer piece is interesting: I guess the writer found a good narrative thread and ran with that and other aspects of his story moved into the background.Garethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08544047015325046422noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1551919020263278449.post-17434511946515480412009-02-26T11:37:00.000+09:002009-02-26T11:37:00.000+09:00Quite a lot, really. The Masamoto gyuto was about ...Quite a lot, really. The Masamoto gyuto was about $250, the Aritsugu deba about $150. The markup plus shipping from U.S. retailers ends up being about 33%, give or take.<BR/><BR/>The New Yorker article is interesting and well written, and Bob Kramer is certainly something of a celebrity among knife enthusiasts. But the article was also a bit controversial: many feel that it did not explain or adequately take account of Kramer's most important contributions, particularly the role he has played in the rise of Japanese cutlery to the consciousness of the Western purchaser. It also overemphasizes this little project he's got of resuscitating an old American smith's methods, which really has very little to do with why Bob Kramer is a big deal. I think that's all true, but it was a decent article nonetheless.Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00093242076173148071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1551919020263278449.post-90362413414314174632009-02-26T00:03:00.000+09:002009-02-26T00:03:00.000+09:00As someone infatuated with sharp kitchen implement...As someone infatuated with sharp kitchen implements - mostly from the wrong side of the shop displays - how much do knives like that retail for in Japan? <A HREF="http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/11/24/081124fa_fact_oppenheimer" REL="nofollow">This </A> article about master bladesmiths was also quite fun...Garethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08544047015325046422noreply@blogger.com