It begins with shopping at a good cookware store, one with shelves stacked with tiny baking molds, rows of knives, tart pans and couscousiers.
In the kitchen, a row of chef knives, professionally sharpened just hours before, laid across a long industrial-size preparation table next to spices, zucchini, canned beans, measuring cups and chopping boards.
There was a school at the museum who believed in orderly rows of all possible knives and all possible bowls.
Its new, well-balanced Gourmet Chef's vegetable knife has a row of holes near the edge of the blade and, on one side, a thin ridge above them.
In time, place settings became elaborate, and involved a whole complement of knives: blunt knives, fish knives, cheese knives, butter knives.
Determine what types of knives you need.
Lay the sheet on a flat surface and run your exacto knife along the first row of tiles.
We sat in a double row of wobbly little tables across from the counter, and watched the countermen folding pita and slicing meat with their long knives.
Row after row of minuses.
"An entire row of houses".
