Couteaux de France - History of regional knives, French book

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Couteaux de France - History of regional knives, French book
Couteaux de France - History of regional knives, French book
In this book of 224 full color pages very well illustrated the author makes us discover the French regional knives.
Each terroir, each region of France has its own knife, a knife that was in the pocket of our ancestors, a knife that we kept with us, an intimate companion in rural life. It is this France that the author invites us to discover by making us enter the small workshops of our villages.
Like culinary specialties and local dialects, the regional knife is a cultural marker of attachment to a territory, and the symbol of a French way of life, of our cultural exception. Ethnographer and specialist in the history of French cutlery, the author has participated in documentaries on the Laguiole knife. Here he gives us the fruit of twenty years of peregrinations and historical research across the country.
Contents:
Foreword
The knife and its territory
The village cutler, a family workshop
The transmission of know-how
Making other people's knives
The knives of the Massif Central
Knives of the South West
Knives of the West
The knives of the North and the East
The knives of the South East
False friends from elsewhere
The sea, another land
Collectors
Afterword
Technical glossary
Index
The French texts are written by Christian Lemasson.
Printed in 2020, this book is
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and is 8-½ inches x 11 inches ( 22 cm x 28 cm )
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