Foie Gras Knife

French dinners used to come with a different knife for everything, and this silver foie gras knife is exactly that kind of small specialist. Found in Villeneuve-lès-Avignon, it has a slender bamboo-cast handle, made for the slice of foie gras on toasted brioche that opens the kind of dinner where a glass of Sauternes is already waiting beside the plate. The bamboo handle was a French fascination of the late 19th and early 20th century, borrowed from Japan and recast in silver for the tables of Paris and the south. Sylvie sets it out on a marble board with a small terrine, a pot of fig jam, and a stack of toasted bread, the kind of evening that starts at the kitchen counter and never quite makes it to the table. Five available, sold separately.