A furious, Locke wheels around and, with a carving knife, chops off his right hand.
It is easier to see what you're doing, especially when cutting, carving and chopping food, under a bright, direct light.
On a recent October morning Ms. Hayes had been at the farm since 8 a.m., processing lamb with her mother, carving seven animals into chops, legs, kebabs and stew meat, all of which she had wrapped into packages and stowed in a room-size freezer.
Traditional meals include gammon and pork chops carved from a pig slaughtered on the first day of the festivities (St. Ignatius's Day).
The animal's body is already carved into gleaming chops but it smokes a cigar, defiant of its fate, its beady red eyes shining angrily.
Transfer pork to a carving board, and slice into chops.
Knives were scattered about -- a different blade for chopping, dicing, spreading, carving.
The work of art is carved entirely from chopped liver.
This is is the knife you'll use for chopping vegetables, herbs, slicing steak, carving chicken, whacking coconuts, you name it.
I tasted caviar, sipped nice wines, carved chateaubriand, dressed lamb chops in tiny gold foil booties.
