An Edge in the Kitchen

Shun has been generating a lot of press lately (at least in the trade pubs) with background information and photos of its new mandolin.

Here’s the press release –

2008 March — Kai Presents the Shun Pro Mandolin to the Marketplace

March 1, 2008, Tualatin, OR – It’s the ideal tool for swiftly slicing firm fruits and vegetables, as well as producing shoestring, julienne, French fry, and plank fry cuts. It’s the only product on the market that can cut a two-pound potato without prior prep work. And with a safety-minded food carriage that keeps fingers away from the blade, the only thing cut is your food. It’s the new Shun Pro Mandolin, a food slicer that has been painstakingly tested to meet the rigors of daily use in local restaurants, but designed for the home gourmet. Read the rest of this entry »

The cover is finally up on Amazon, in all its tomato red glory. While you’re waiting patiently for me to get my act together you can, if you are so inclined, pre-order the book so that it will be delivered as soon as it is published.

Here’s the live link to “An Edge in the Kitchen” on Amazon.

If anyone has, in fact, stopped by chadwrites.com in the last day or two you’ll note that the placeholder page is gone and this rapidly shifting blog/website/disaster area has taken its place. Things are in transition. This will become the venue to discuss my book, kitchen knives, kitchen science, new books and other projects . . . at some point. Sooner rather than later, I hope. It’s going to be like this for the next week or two. I suspect the site will rarely look the same twice as I sort through what works and what doesn’t. Bear with me.

In the meantime, here’s a lovely image to keep you entertained.

Blog. What an unpleasant word. It’s something you expect to see in a horror novel (”It was squatting there, like a blog, looking disreputable and vaguely sinister”) or describing an unfortunate bodily function (”I can’t eat cucumbers, they make me blog”).

Now I have one.

Why, you ask? Apparently this is my publisher’s big plan for reaching the bestseller list. Sheer marketing genius at work. It used to be that only pre-teen girls, English majors and serial killers felt the need to record every passing thought for posterity. Now it seems that everyone with a computer feels compelled to share their gardening tips, puppy pictures, tantric sex secrets and satori-like insights. This is how we now express ourselves. As one particularly tough editor said, “You want to express yourself? Yell out the f**king window.”

Welcome to my window.