Funny story from the other day

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So my wife puts up with all of my hobbies, no matter how annoying they may be, or how much they end up navigating themselves onto the coffee table or kitchen counter.

Well the other day she is in the kitchen trying out a new recipe. She is great cook and as of late has been trying every different recipe she can think of. Well her favorite resource is nothing other than a copy of The Joy of Cooking that her mother handed down to her when she moved to NC to live with me.

My in-progress (at the time) BK9 was lying on the kitchen counter near where she was doing her thing, with TJoC splayed out to some newly discovered page. She out of the blue stated "This is the greatest cookbook ever". I nonchalantly walked up and asked her (rhetorically of course) whose names were on the cover of the book.

She read them off one by one, then looked at me like "what's your point?" I picked up the BK9 and pointed at the name on the side.

I stood there for a while so the hamster could get the wheel moving fast enough...but eventually the light bulb came on. It was like I did a magic trick when she made the connection between the two.

Not only that but she thought it was cool that our hobbies do occasionally cross paths in unexpected ways.
 
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uh...wanna share what the magic trick was to those of us who don't get it?

I edited the main post for a little better clarity, but I'll spell it out for those of you who still don't get it. Ethan Becker, author of The Joy of Cooking as well as designer of the Becker line of knives.
 
Dude, Ethan has been a modern day renaissance man. Been and done quite alot. According to him, the chili he made at the Gathering back in May, known gloriously as "Rockport Chili" is to be found in the cookbook. Whether or not that is the latest version I do not know.
 
I can just see it now, stirring the pot of chili fro tjoc with your badass bk9 sitting shotgun guarding against chili thieves. Its funny how the world works and hope ethan gets into something my wife enjoys so I can say "see, now we spend ALL of our money on Becker products"
 
Or stirring the chili with the BK9! It's quite a renaissance blade after all. I'm gonna have to pick up this book and I don't even cook, well atleast.
 
i keep thinking the JoC should have an insert in the cover for a necker :>
 
I edited the main post for a little better clarity, but I'll spell it out for those of you who still don't get it. Ethan Becker, author of The Joy of Cooking as well as designer of the Becker line of knives.
I thought I read somewhere that his grandmother originally wrote it and he's added stuff over the years. Either way this is a guy who has seen it all and done it all.

i keep thinking the JoC should have an insert in the cover for a necker :>

I would buy that immediately.
 
I thought I read somewhere that his grandmother originally wrote it and he's added stuff over the years. Either way this is a guy who has seen it all and done it all.



I would buy that immediately.

I was generalizing for those that were unaware.
 
I'm going to have to get this book now, and maybe my wife and I can share a hobby. I'll cut stuff she can cook it :D
 
I edited the main post for a little better clarity, but I'll spell it out for those of you who still don't get it. Ethan Becker, author of The Joy of Cooking as well as designer of the Becker line of knives.

Thats uncanny!
 
I went and looked at the book today....is it really our Ethan Becker that help write it?
 
I went and looked at the book today....is it really our Ethan Becker that help write it?

how many times to we have to say "it's so"? :) it's his family business :)

as i recall, he was also owner/designer at CMG, you know those chocks and rescue-8? could be :>

the Becker Pack? oh yeah

and quite a few other ventures.
 
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