“I wish sometimes I could go through the kitchens of amateur cooks everywhere, just throwing knives out from their drawers,” wrote Anthony Bourdain, years ago, in the book that made him famous. “Not ...

Any kitchen is incomplete without a knife block set. Preferably one with a nice chef's knife, a serrated blade for bread, and maybe some steak knives or a pair of scissors. Personally, my fiancée and ...