The wisdom of Oriental cookware that gave us the wok also gave us the Chinese cleaver. But westerners are far less familiar with the cleaver, a cook`s tool that for most Chinese chefs is tantamount to ...

But one sharp-beaked bird keeps flying back into my hands. My Dexter Chinese-style cleaver has occupied a perpetual spot in the cutlery lineup, even if it goes unused for months at a time. We recently ...