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This afternoon, I bought the world's greatest mandoline -- the professional model made in France by deBuyer -- by pooling several gift certificates useable at a local cooking shop called Sur la Table. I set it up quickly and used it on an apple, a red bell pepper, tomatoes, white onions and even some pitted black olives -- in a moment of whimsy.
While I am entirely satisfied with my new kitchen "essential", I am curious as to how it can have a name so close to the stringed instrument without the "e" -- the mandolin.
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Actually both of the instruments can have an e on the end according to onelook.
My guess, though, is that there's a superficial resemblance between the two. Or perhaps the original kitchen utensil named mandoline had thin wires that did the cutting, like those egg slicer thingies.
And congratulations on your purchase. Those puppies are expensive but worth it, I understand. That's one of the things I do not have in my kitchen that I could really use.
I did recently purchase a 10" Messermeister chef's knife on Ebay that I find very useful.
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also the title of a Paul Verlaine poem, set most wonderfully by Fauré. (among others) (apologies if the translation is poor, it was a quick google.)
Mandoline [Mandolin]
Les donneurs de sérénades
Et les belles écouteuses
Echangent des propos fades
Sous les ramures chanteuses.
C'est Tircis et c'est Aminte,
Et c'est l'éternel Clitandre,
Et c'est Damis qui pour mainte
Cruelle fait maint vers tendre.
Leurs courtes vestes de soie,
Leurs longues robes à queues,
Leur élégance, leur joie
Et leurs molles ombres bleues
Tourbillonnent dans l'extase
D'une lune rose et grise,
Et la mandoline jase
Parmi les frissons de brise.
Mandoline [Mandolin]
The givers of serenades
And the beautiful listeners
Exchange conversations insipid
Underneath the singing branches.
It is Tircis and it is Aminte
And it is the eternal Clitandre
And it is Damis who, for many cruel ladies,
Makes many verses tender.
Their short jackets of silk,
Their long dresses with trains,
Their elegance, their joy
And their soft blue shadows.
Tumble in the ecstasy
Of a pink and grey moon,
And the mandolin chatters
Amongst the shimmers of the breeze.
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First, would either of you gentlemen like to come cook at my house? My idea of the dernier cri in kitchenware is a ginger grater shaped like a flounder (I love it). Second, I remember an anecdote in one of my cookbooks about noodles being rolled on a guitar body and cut through the strings. I'll bet whoever did that heard the old "shaving your legs with my razor again" lecture! So maybe someone cut an egg through mandolin strings and dropped it into the belly? That could account for the name, and for that fancy rose on the sound hole in the mandolin! 
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Never heard that use of mandoline before. Does anyone know, please, if we use the term in the UK?
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Thanks Roger. After viewing that I tried Googling UK sites for mandoline and found an old-established Sheffield cutlery firm that makes them. My kitchen vocabulary is obviously as limited as my kitchen skills .
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Maybe we should ask Rebecca. No. Never mind, you said mandoLINE.
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I guess my liver's been zested... 
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