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打开一粒坚果的九种美妙方式?? 2015-01-08 21:25:55|??分类：?english 阅读|字号?订阅 As a child, Chris Cosentino loved using the simple wooden?nutcrackers胡桃钳?his grandfather made to?separate nuts坚果?from their?shells贝壳. And there were always plenty of bowls of nuts sitting around his grandparents’ homes. 克里斯·科森蒂诺(Chris Cosentino)从小就喜欢用他祖父做的那个简单的木质胡桃夹子剥坚果。那时候，他祖父母的家中各处总有一碗碗的坚果。 “Walnuts核桃?,?hazelnuts?and?almonds 杏仁?in the shell带壳的?,” he said.?“It was a very Italian thing.”这是一个很意大利的东西 Mr. Cosentino, 42, is now a chef who has been a winner on the Bravo series “Top Chef Masters” and who has a new restaurant called Cockscomb opening in San Francisco in a few weeks. These days, he uses a?marble大理石?mortar 迫击炮?andpestle（捣碎或碾磨用的）杵?or a woodworking?mallet?木槌?when he needs to crack nuts. But he had a number of suggestions for those who prefer traditional nutcrackers. At Zinc Details, in the Lower Pacific Heights area of San Francisco, he found severalappealing options很有吸引力的产品, including an Andrea Branzi design for Alessi called Scoiattolo (or squirrel). It was heavy, which is a good thing in a?nutcracker胡桃夹子, he explained, because it means?“the nut will give before the nutcracker itself will.”坚果在这样的夹子面前会自暴自弃? It was also?functional工呢过?, he said (“It has two sections for different-size nuts”), and?aesthetically美学的??pleasing. “You’ve got a?squirrel松鼠??sitting on what looks like a branch cracking a nut. It makes sense and it looks good enough to?keep out on the counter摆在台面上?.” Looks are important to Mr. Cosentino, who has done a certain amount of designing: of clothing (Chef jeans and Meat Feat socks), sporting equipment (a limited-edition skateboard) and?kitchenware厨房用品?(a line of knives). “If it’s something that sits out,” he said, “I want people to look at it and think it’s really beautiful.” The Nusskubus, which he found online from Connox, more than fit that?criteria标准?. “If you put it on your?counter柜台?,” he said, “they’ll think it’s a?sculpture雕塑.” He also liked a mushroom-like wooden nutcracker fro