{"id":36345,"date":"2013-12-05T12:41:47","date_gmt":"2013-12-05T17:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/improvisedlife.com\/?p=36345"},"modified":"2020-01-16T20:31:53","modified_gmt":"2020-01-17T01:31:53","slug":"favorite-gift-give-get-10-leconome-paring-knife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/improvisedlife.com\/2013\/12\/05\/favorite-gift-give-get-10-leconome-paring-knife\/","title":{"rendered":"Favorite Gift to Give and Get: $10 French Paring Knife"},"content":{"rendered":"
We came across L’Econome’s perfect paring knife years ago in a kitchen ware store and have been in love ever since. They’re inexpensive \u2013 about $10 each \u2013 feel good in the hand, sharpen easily, AND look good, even as they age and weather. \u00a0Since EVERYBODY needs a good paring knife, we’d buy them in different colors to keep in our \u201cgift\u201d drawer, just in case. Fortunately,\u00a0 Opinel, another great knife maker started selling their version just as L’Econome stopped making them. Whew!<\/p>\n
New York Times food editor Melissa Clark <\/a>told us that when you give someone a knife, they should give you a penny, otherwise it’s bad luck. We we wrap our gift knife WITH a penny so the giftee can give it back to us toute suite.<\/em><\/p>\n You can order the knives in a variety of colors online at Opinel.com<\/a>. Amazon sells Opinels as a set with a vegetable peeler.<\/a> (Beware of\u00a0cheap-o knock-offs\u00a0like the\u00a0brand MIU France\u00a0made in China \u2014four for $13.99; the colors aren’t as good, the rivets stick out too far, and they don\u2019t feel \u2013 or look -quite right.)<\/p>\n Here are our beloved, used-daily, left-in-the-sink, sharpened-many-times, years-old knives.<\/p>\n