chopping-board

I have stood, flat-footed between the serving stations, studying the cascades of shrimp on ice, and the hunks of beef bleeding into the chopping-board gutters and the intense Hispanic boys at the omelette hobs begging for orders, and known that nothing good could come from this.

Buffets are the place where ingredients go to die Jay Rayner 2010

Around spring 2012, he intends to introduce a chopping-board set that will include three boards of diminishing size that nest together.

They Won. And Then What? Emily Glazer 2011

Besides these things there are a few absolute necessaries, — lacquer or wooden bowls for food and sake, a chopping-board and rude chopping-knife, a cleft-stick for burning strips of birch-bark, a triply-cleft stick for supporting the potsherd in which, on rare occasions, they burn

Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Isabella Lucy 2004

In great yellow and red clay containers smoked the maccheroni made by the women, and on the wooden chopping-board, Predu skillfully sliced the well-done pig.

Grazia Deledda - Prose 1926

The size of the roots, and the impracticability of cutting below their splaying-point, made it necessary for us to rig up a chopping-board.

Head Hunters of the Amazon: Seven Years of Exploration and Adventure 1923

He laid down his book upon a clean chopping-board.

Privy Seal His Last Venture Ford Madox Ford 1906

When tender, strain through a colander, well press out the water, turn the spinach on to a chopping-board, chop very fine, then place it into a stewpan containing half an ounce of butter and stir over a brisk fire for a few minutes, adding pepper to taste.

New Vegetarian Dishes Mrs. Bowdich 1896

If it was late in the autumn, there was a chopping-board and chopping-knife ready, with the feet of neat-cattle, from which the oily parts had been extracted by boiling.

Letters of a Traveller Notes of Things Seen in Europe and America William Cullen Bryant 1836