A knife like no other.
Now I have to admit that the romantic story of (I think it was) Mart Smeets - a well known Dutch sports presentor - ending up on a meadow in France during the Tour de France, left me curious. His car broke down and some farmers approached him and asked if they could be of any assistance. When it was lunchtime they invited him to share a meal with them on one of the fields nearby. A long table was set out by the women and they all got seated. What immediately struck him as strange was the fact that only forks were handed out to the men. The women got both forks and knives. Right after the cutlery was handed out, all the men pulled out their own Laguiole knives, which they used for basically any purpose imaginable, as one of the younger farmers explained to him later.
The Laguiole knife, an 19th century juxtapose between the Spanish Navaja knife and the Capuchadou (from the Aubrac region), since conquered the world with it's sleek and sexy lines. My next Laguiole purchase would be a collection of table knives (see above). Whether it be a simple and sober knife, a champagne sabre or a rosewood set corkscrew, you can only but admire the outstanding piece of craftmanship.
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