True Love Never Dies

I got my first good knives as a graduation present from my parents when I left college 12 (gulp) years ago. I had started cooking with gusto when I was about 19 I so I was sent into the world with a good GPA in not so useful majors (English, American Studies), a second hand car and three German knives.

Since then I've got a lot of experience in the tech field, a different car and...the same knives (with a couple of additions). I realize that as a proud resident of Chicago I am supposed to shun Macy's for the whole renaming of Field's but I was lured today by the offer of free professional knife sharpening; a service which normally has pornlike pricing by the inch.

It's hard to turn down free.

So I biked off to the train this morning with my blades wrapped in a dish towel tucked into my messenger bag and walked over at lunch. SO exciting. I have a steel at home but one run through a pro-sharpener and my babies are like new again.