[Sca-cooks] It's in the New York Times, so it must be true...

[ekoogler1 at comcast.net]

I heard from a lady today that some woman in Montgomery Co., MD taped two large kitchen knives together, went to a local mall and started hacking and slashing folks in Nordmark's!  

Kiri


> > I can see the slogans: "Chef's knives don't kill people, chefs kill  
> > people!" "They can pry my chef's knife from my cold, dead fingers!"  
> > "When chef's knives are outlawed, only outlaws will be chefs!" and  
> > last, but not least, "The American Culinary Federation: We do our  
> > part!"
> 
> Adamantius
> 
> > May 27, 2005
> > British Medical Experts Campaign for Long, Pointy Knife Control
> > By JOHN SCHWARTZ
> >
> > Warning: Long, pointy knives may be hazardous to your health.
> >
> > The authors of an editorial in the latest issue of the British  
> > Medical Journal have called for knife reform. The editorial,  
> > "Reducing knife crime: We need to ban the sale of long, pointed  
> > kitchen knives," notes that the knives are being used to stab  
> > people as well as roasts and the odd tin of Spam.
> >
> > The authors of the essay - Drs. Emma Hern, Will Glazebrook and Mike  
> > Beckett of the West Middlesex University Hospital in London -  
> > called for laws requiring knife manufacturers to redesign their  
> > wares with rounded, blunt tips.
> >
> > The researchers noted that the rate of violent crime in Britain  
> > rose nearly 18 percent from 2003 to 2004, and that in the first two  
> > weeks of 2005, 15 killings and 16 nonfatal attacks involved  
> > stabbings. In an unusual move for a scholarly work, the researchers  
> > cited a January headline from The Daily Express, a London tabloid:  
> > "Britain is in the grip of knives terror - third of murder victims  
> > are now stabbed to death." Dr. Hern said that "we came up with the  
> > idea and tossed it into the pot" to get people talking about crime  
> > reduction. "Whether it's a sensible solution to this problem or  
> > not, I'm not sure."
> >
> > In the United States, where people are more likely to debate gun  
> > control than knife control, partisans on both sides sounded amused.  
> > Wayne LaPierre, executive vice president of the National Rifle  
> > Association, asked, "Are they going to have everybody using plastic  
> > knives and forks and spoons in their own homes, like they do in  
> > airlines?"
> >
> > Peter Hamm, a spokesman for the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun  
> > Violence, which supports gun control, joked, "Can sharp stick  
> > control be far behind?" He said people in his movement were  
> > "envious" of England for having such problems. "In America, we  
> > can't even come to an agreement that guns are dangerous and we  
> > should make them safer," he said.
> >
> > The authors of the editorial argued that the pointed tip is a  
> > vestigial feature from less mannered ages, when people used it to  
> > spear meat. They said that they interviewed 10 chefs in England,  
> > and that "none gave a reason why the long, pointed knife was  
> > essential," though short, pointed knives were useful.
> >
> > An American chef, however, disagreed with the proposal. "This is  
> > yet another sign of the coming apocalypse," said Anthony Bourdain,  
> > the executive chef at Les Halles and the author of "Kitchen  
> > Confidential."
> >
> > A knife, he said, is a beloved tool of the trade, and not a thing  
> > to be shaped by bureaucrats. A chef's relationship with his knives  
> > develops over decades of training and work, he said, adding, "Its  
> > weight, its shape - these are all extensions of our arms, and in  
> > many ways, our personalities."
> >
> > He compared the editorial to efforts to ban unpasteurized cheese.  
> > "Where there is no risk," he said, "there is no pleasure."
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> "S'ils n'ont pas de pain, vous fait-on dire, qu'ils  mangent de la  
> brioche!" / "If there's no bread to be had, one has to say, let them  
> eat cake!"
>      -- attributed to an unnamed noblewoman by Jean-Jacques Rousseau,  
> "Confessions", 1782
> 
> "Why don't they get new jobs if they're unhappy -- or go on Prozac?"
>      -- Susan Sheybani, assistant to Bush campaign spokesman Terry  
> Holt, 07/29/04
> 
> 
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