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Short orders

A cut above

(Sheryl Julian/Globe Staff)
By Sheryl Julian
Globe Staff / July 22, 2009

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When the first tomatoes of the season overcome their rainy, chilly beginning in the garden and ripen in all their ruby glory, they deserve to be treated like something akin to royalty. That means cutting and slicing them with utmost care. An ordinary straight-edge knife never works well, even one recently sharpened. Only a straight (rather than curved) serrated edge ... (Full article: 162 words)

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