Primitive Cutting Board

Found in Normandy, this primitive early 19th-century French cutting board was cut from a single wide plank, the kind of board that came from one tree and one cut and is almost impossible to find now. The top is chamfered into a peak and the bottom corners are cut at angles. The center is worn into a soft hollow where a generation of cooks chopped the same things in the same spot every day: bread, butter, cheese, the apples that grew everywhere in Normandy. Sylvie leans it against a kitchen wall behind a wooden bowl of pears or apples, where the worn hollow catches the morning light.

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