Comments on: Salt and Pepper Mills

By: Weekend Cooking: What We’ve Been Up To in the Kitchen This Week - Ms. Bookish

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 04:01:25 +0000

[...] Steve Kubien’s Salt and Pepper Mills: Steve is one of Ward’s students, and a fabulous woodworker. If you’ve got a foodie on your shopping list this holiday season, check out Steve’s work on Etsy. He’s got some gorgeous pieces available, plus he does custom work! [...]

By: Rose

Rose — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:25:12 +0000

Those are absolutely beautiful. I love hand carved wood. The texture, depth and softness never fail to elicit a gasp! I love the usefulness as well.

By: Ward

Ward — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:36:11 +0000

Hi Lyndsey,
I know you are almost at the opposite end of the continent as us but please do check Steve’s woodworking out. He is a wonderful person and a true craftsman.. No, he is an artist. He cares very much about his products and the wood they come from. He cares about the wood from start to finish.

By: Ward

Ward — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:26:13 +0000

Thanks Lindsay,
It was sort of a rhetorical question. I know it comes from the Latin Mortarium and pestillum, the vessel for pounding and the pounder. But thank you very much for replying. I went off to your blog and saw those Hasselback potatoes and now I want to make them for tomorrow nights dinner. They are cool!

By: Lyndsey

Lyndsey — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:02:25 +0000

The mortar is the bowl or bottom block, and the pestal is the bat shaped thing you grind things with.

By: Lyndsey

Lyndsey — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:59:35 +0000

These are beautiful! My dad is a woodworker so I have grown up to appreciate a nice piece of good wood, and the craftsmenship that has gone into making them. I’ll check him out.