val189 wrote on Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:07:47 -0800 (PST):

> On Nov 18, 11:50 am, "James Silverton"
> > wrote:
>> ChattyCathy wrote on Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:38:37 +0200:
>>
> >> http://www.recfoodcooking.com/
> >> Thanks go to Terry "Prfesser" for this survey.
> >> --
> >> Cheers
> >> Chatty Cathy
>>
>> Like many, I have a radio but it is not always switched on
>> since it tends to drift, not being digitally tuned, and its
>> selectivity is nothing like my Bose receiver.
>>
>> I had initially hoped that you were going to ask about
>> unusual but useful appliances. I was reminded by a thread in
>> another group that I had a French chestnut knife! I also
>> have, courtesy of a long ago vacation in Switzerland, a
>> Roesti Raffel tho' that's not much different from a regular
>> coarse grater.
>>
>> --
>>
>> James Silverton
>> Potomac, Maryland
>>
>> Email, with obvious alterations: not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not

>
New thread? Start it!! Might be fun.

OK, as above my two contributions are the chestnut knife and the Roesti
Raffel. Before anyone asks about the grater, I didn't steal it from the
apartment but bought it in a hardware store in Gstaad, really stretching
my command of German :-)

--

James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

Email, with obvious alterations: not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not