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 a Moon and One Whole Star Half a Moon and One Whole Star Half a Moon and One Whole Star is a 1986 book by Crescent Dragonwagon and illustrator Jerry Pinkney about a girl, Susan, who falls asleep in her bed, while the world continues outside. "Publishers Weekly" in a review of "Half a Moon and One Whole Star", wrote " Half A Moon and One Whole Star is an exceptional children's book: a work of art, both literary and visual." and "School Library Journal" called it "a soft symphony of sleep in which participants are both real and imagined." "Kirkus Reviews" wrote "The cadence and