What the Knife Remembered
I am a chef's knife. I was forged in Seki, Japan, in 1987, from a billet of VG-10 stainless steel that was heated to 1,040 degrees Celsius and hammered into shape by a man named Takeda who had been making knives for forty-seven years and who died in 2003 without ever knowing where most of his knives ended up. I know this because the steel remembers. The hammering is not forgotten; it is encoded...
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