From Newswire:
Ultimate Kitchen gained popularity on the online market as a producer of elegant and functional kitchen accessories.
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Ultimate Kitchen offers the range of additional services that clients receive with their purchases. The company recently released the e-book “How to Fillet Fish”. Customers will receive this e-book with their purchase of 7” fillet knife with gut spoon and sheath.
Link to the rest at Newswire
PG checked Amazon’s bookstore and discovered that several books on the topic of filleting fish may be found under the Fishing heading.
I tell you the tale as it was told to me…
A way back yonder there was a company that made various lab components, mostly rubber tubing type stuff. As a courtesy to their customers they included a sheet of material property data, e.g. melting point, temperature behavior, etc. As the company grew and the products became more varied, the sheet turned into a pamphlet, more information was listed that would be useful to their customers, and different sections on associated material properties added, physical constants and so on.
The pamphlet becomes a book. Eventually it is sold separately. It sells better than the tubing. The company turns into a publishing concern, now known as CRC (for Chemical Rubber Company) and is famous for producing IMMENSE tomes of very obscure and detailed specs of a wide range of scientific materials and topics. A young physicist is often handed a copy of the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics as they begin their career, as a rite of passage. (Mine is the 66th edition…)
in short, beware the “handy little pamphlet”. It escalates…
Heh.
I have an old copy of big yellow lying around.
Emphasis: old.
It was not cheap.
(Just checked online: still very expensive. But if you need it…)
Fascinating story, Sabrina.
There are all kinds of interesting tidbits in the CRC Manual,too. Why anyone would *measure* the dielectric breakdown voltage of balsa wood is a mystery, but they’ve got it listed! Also a section on the history of the elements of the periodic table. For example, cobalt is named after the mythical (and generally friendly) mine gnomes of Germany, i.e. kobolds 🙂
Engrossing reading, cover to cover. 🙂
Rule one: cut away from the hand holding the fish in place.
Rule two: don’t rush the knife.
Signed,
Fish Almost Got Even
[giggling] Nice one.
Three or four of my Amazon purchases have included a free ebook. I never bothered with the download, though.