| Tomato knife | Wooden spoon | Slicing knife |
 I’ll give this oddly specific kitchen utensil its due as the perfect knife when cutting its eponymous fruit — well, according to Britannica, it’s botanically a fruit, but nutritionally a vegetable. Bob loves it and uses it to cut other things, too. I, being a purist, use it only for tomatoes. |
 Rarely do I reach for a wooden spoon when I’m cooking. Bob, however, uses one more often than not — for something — while he’s cooking. I’m cognizant of this, because whenever I dry dishes, there’s almost always one in the lot, to which I invariably utter, “He loves a wooden spoon.” |
 Bob loves this slicing knife, which is one of the last of our knives I’d choose when I need one. He has “history” with it, having acquired it in an auction — at the historic Heck-Andrews house on Blount Street in Raleigh — amidst a box he bought simply labeled “kitchen stuff.” |
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