Sanguine - was, Re: [Sca-cooks] blue food

[Cindy M. Renfrow]

>>Just out of curiosity, what does sanguine mean, in knife terms? I'm
>>aware of definitions of the word as either bloody (and by extension,
>>blood-colored) and as optimistic. How does one get a knife to be
>>sanguine, or do I not want to know?

Well, since the originals (thanks, Thomas!) say "dextramente col coltello",
how about a 'dexterously wielded knife', in the sense that it is
"cheerfully optimistic" about completing its task, rather than a
bloodthirsty knife.

Cindy