Some kitchen tools can tackle a wide variety of culinary tasks. Others, like a butcher knife, only do one thing extremely well. The butcher knife is one of the most recognizable knives in the kitchen, ...

MAKING THE CUT: Artisan butchers like Jimmy Lee, pictured here at Foothills Local Meats’ Black Mountain processing facility, have to cultivate in-depth knowledge of animal anatomy as well as a toolkit ...

Two and a half million years ago, our hominin ancestors in the African savanna crafted rocks into shards that could slice apart a dead gazelle, zebra or other game animal. Over the next 700,000 years, ...