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There are some beautiful-sounding words associated with the culinary arts.
Cauldron is a personal favorite, both for sound and the images of bountiful, bubbling things being prepared.
Also, the mezza luna (hope spelling is correct), this cutting implement's being a crescent moon with a handle on each end.
And then there's the colander--I edited out the superfluous "l," thanks to my friend, wwh--the speckled holes through which liquid drains.
Cauldron, colander, mezza luna...and many more. I'm curious about the objects we find in our kitchens that ring with a sound that is pleasurable to contemplate along with their sometimes interesting purposes.
I must add the runcible spoon from The Owl and the Pussycat, which was a fanciful spoon non-existent at the time, but which you may now purchase as a sort of pickle knife, tined with curving, spoonlike tines.
Any others that come to mind?
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...are some beautiful-sounding words... You and I could "go on" all day about what sounds beautiful, even though your initial choices seem to be *questionable...  A potatoe MASHER brings out all the images of hard work and preparation cooking can be... A SOUP SPOON kinda makes me salivate in anticipation of the sound of slurping... ... an egg WHISK is quite onomatapoetic, as well.
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I also like épergne, the stacked levels of usually three plates on a central post. I once went to a tea in which the hostess had filled each plate (actually, they were more like bowls) with sugar and had put cones similar to canolli into the sugar--charming.
Salt cellars are cool...
Finger bowls are rare, but precious to think about...
Salvers stacked high with roast beef are succulent to think about...
Toby mugs are totally useless, but fun to say...
The groaning board sounds like where I'd like to be...
And waffle irons always waffle and never waffle... (Why does waffle mean waffle when the waffle iron turns out something of such predetermined pattern?)
Tea eggs are laid by Chinese chefs...
Carving knife has a good enough sound to put into a nursery rhyme...
Also, Polly put the kettle on...
Which brings in a tea cozy...
And tea tray...
I'd love to learn some more rare ones, however, like the mezza luna. I hope I'll have grandchilren one day to take out the mezza luna one night for slicing celery for ruby salad--then out to look at the moon...
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Cauldrons are for cooking missionaries whole.And (forgive me)
my colander has only one "l". I expect to pay for that impertinence. I did not expect to get off so easily.
Three blind mice, a new politically correct version:
A triumvirate of murine rodents totally devoid of ophthalmic acuity was observed in a state of rapid locomotion in pursuit of an agriculturalist's uxorial adjunct. The aforesaid adjunct then performed a triple caudectomy utilizing an acutely honed bladed instrument generally used for subdivision of edible tissue.
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or how about making music in the kitchen on a mandoline? never could figure out the relationship between a slicer and musical instrument.
or baster.. how does it relate to quick sewing? and why are fancy double boilers called bain maries?
The answers to these questions and more can be found... can they be found?
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ETYMOLOGY:French, from Medieval Latin balneum Mariae, bath of Maria, probably after Maria, an early alchemist.
Dear of troy: thanks for teaching me a new word. I have seen many cut fingers from the gadget, but never heard the name of it. Mandoline. And all these years I was ignorant enough to call it a slicer.
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Impertinence, indeed! wwh, I thank you for the correction! You've saved me a challenge in Scrabble, which is, of course, the point of visiting WAD wegulawy...
But I did liu, just in case, and I found a synonym for colander (see, I'm a good student!) that has two ll's:
cullander...
Ain't that neat? Another Scrabble word!
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just to take this topic down a notch (revenge? possibly...), what do you folks call those plastic, fast-food utensils that are a combo-spoon-and-fork. sfork? spork? foon?? actually®, the "official" name seems to be spork, but I *so prefer sfork.... http://www.spork.org/
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Imagine Frederick the Great's father threatening to disown him for being so effeminate as to use a fork. Real men used a small sword or something. I eat my peas with honey.......
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Three blind mice, a new politically correct version:
"A triumvirate of murine rodents totally in pursuit of an agriculturalist's uxorial adjunct."
Uh, dr. bill, I think you are in for a flaying. helen and I, at least, would surely not accept that the uxor is a mere adjunct.
The talmudists posed the question, "Why did God specifically choose Adam's rib, and not some other part of the body, from which to create Eve?" Their answer: God wished it to be clear from the first that woman is not above man and not below him, but rather beside him.
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