Travis Weige is a lean, thirtysomething, outdoorsy-looking gent whose real job is in media sales, working for a company based out of New York City. He lives in Sunset Valley in a comfortable older ...

If you've ever wanted to wrap your hands around a barrel of Pappy Van Winkle bourbon, literally, now is your chance. Its handmade blade and handle make it one-of-a-kind, falling in line with the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Designing custom chef’s knives is not how things began for Middleton. The real story started while Quintin was attending college ...

A collection of the late Anthony Bourdain's belongings fetched nearly $2 million at auction in October — with his custom chef's knife selling for a whopping $231,250. The auction comes after the ...

CAMBRIDGE — “A great knife is your best friend in the kitchen,” says Adam Simha, a Cambridge knife maker whose instruments are utilitarian and beautiful, with handles made from such exotic woods as ...

I first met Hayden Kessel at Colorado Pastured Pork in Hotchkiss. I was there to check out owner-rancher Toby McPartland’s pastured heritage pig operation, and ranch hand Kessel was there to co-lead ...

Chelsea Miller started making custom knives in 2011 and has grown her client list to include some of the top chefs in the world. Business Insider visited her Brooklyn studio to learn how she does it.

Anthony Bourdain was someone who traveled a lot, with his shows about food and culture around the world, such as No Reservations and Parts Unknown, so he had to be selective about the souvenirs he ...

As careful as Dan Eastland is, he still tends to get cut a lot. Fileted flesh is par for the course when your life’s work is building custom knives. Eastland has sliced and diced and punctured himself ...

I bought my first Japanese chef knife about ten years ago. Before that I had always used German knives, Wusthoff Grand Prix in culinary school and Messermeister San Moritz Elites professionally. At ...

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