Kitchen knife a slotted metal blade attached to a handle. Also known as a Mezzaluna (Italian: "half moon") because of the shape, a mincing knife is a semicircular highly curved blade with a handle that allows the blade to be rocked back and forth repeatedly on a hard surface. This rocking motion is ideal for mincing and chopping. Some mincing knives are supplied with a wooden cutting board with a circular bowl-shaped indentation that matches the curvature of the knife. Some models have two blades that are parallel to each other to increase their mincing power. Large mezzaluna-like knives with shallow curves
Half Moon, Herne Hill of the Half Moon featured in an advert for Red Rock Cider, directed by John Lloyd and starring Leslie Nielsen. The Half Moon is depicted in the graphic novel, "From Hell", by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell. In April 2008, comedian Ronnie Corbett was interviewed with TV presenters Ant and Dec in the Half Moon for The Observer. Scenes from the 2011 British movie "Treacle Jr.", directed by Jamie Thraves and starring Aidan Gillen, were filmed in the Half Moon. The pub was flooded in August 2013, and was subsequently closed for a number of years. In 2014, The Dulwich