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Fruit Carving Book & Tool Set

Step-by-Step Book and Deluxe Garnishing Set

Step-by-Step Vegetable & Fruit Carving Book with 11pc Tool Set
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Buy the complete Fruit & Vegetable Carving Set with the detailed Step-By-Step Carving Book for a special discount price.

This eleven piece carving knife set imported directly from Thailand, includes all the essential tools you need to create beautiful detailed vegetable and fruit carvings. The set includes 2 of the handy Miracle Knives, 2 short bladed seeding knives, 2 paring knives, 2 wavy-edged cutters, and 3 longer knives for peeling.

Currently not available anywhere else in the US, this is a new product from the well-respected Kiwi/Kom Kom knife company based in Bangkok. Check out the knife and tool dimensions.

White lotus carving

To help you get started carving, we offer the incredible Step-by-Step Vegetable and Fruit Carving Book. This book includes step-by-step color photographs detailing how to create both simple and intricate carvings and garnishes. Check out our past newsletters to view 2 examples of carvings from the book: White Lotus (using a cucumber) and Apple Leaf.

Each finished carving is shown in a gorgeous full page photograph, so that you can study the details of how it was created. Please see the link above for more details about this excellent book.

Save $$$: This carving set is high in quality but not high in price like European brand carving knives and tools, making it a great gift for an aspiring garde manger, hobbyist, or caterer.

Step-by-step Instructions

The purpose of fruit and vegetable carving is to make food more attractive, more appetizing, and also easier to eat. Vegetables are first delicately carved, then cooked, and finally arranged attractively to decorate the dish of which they are a part of. Needless to say, guests are greatly pleased to be honored with such a gracious welcome, displaying as it does the good feeling and hospitality of the maker.

Decorating fresh, well formed and colorful fruits and vegetables through artistic carving is by no means difficult; all it takes is concentration.

An excerpt from the book: The Complete Step-by-Step Vegetable and Fruit Carving edited by Nidda Hongwiwat, Copyright 1999.

International customers: Please use our online cart to calculate shipping costs via either UPS for our Thai cookbooks, carving tools, and books.

This fruit carving tool set is also available without the book.garnishing knife

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