graters

If you want to be a bit more specialised, not to say recherché, go for one of those Japanese porcelain graters used for wasabi; £3.49 from the Japan Centre.

Food for Fort: Chelsea buns, grating horseradish and a pastry rebel Matthew Fort 2010

"There, Dolly," said Nabby, seating herself on a flat stone by the brook, "I'm goin 'to rest a minute, and you can find some of them sweet-flag' graters 'if you want."

Poganuc People: Their Loves and Lives 1878

"I didn't set out to make cheese graters," Mr. Grace, an engineer by education, said recently.

From The Garage To The Kitchen: The Story Of The Microplane nytimes.com 2011

This vendor sells gourmet graters -- for ginger, cinnamon, cheese and more -- imported from Spain.

A More Mainstream Houston Rodeo 2011

This time around, Homily, Pod and Arrietty Clock live under Victoria Wood's floorboards in the traditionally Heath Robinson-esque miniature world of security gates made of cheese graters and paperclips, a single strawberry cream serving as pudding two nights in a row and cotton reels for tables.

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A legless man hawks nutmeg graters, a blind man lives by selling bootlaces, and an 8-year-old peddles watercresses.

Sociology most Dickensian Michael Dirda 2011

The Houston rodeo features a "Go Tejano Day," which caters to the city's growing Hispanic population, and a massive market, with vendors selling everything from gourmet ginger-root graters imported from Spain to wine-bottle holders in the shape of cowboy boots.

Houston's Rodeo Cowboys Are Ridin', Ropin' and Wine Sippin' Ana Campoy 2011

Displayed behind glass walls, the studio's small table is cluttered with calipers and compasses, files, graters and rasps, a spoon, a scruffy toothbrush; his cane hangs on the back of his rattan armchair, an old-fashioned radio sits on a shelf behind it.

The Origins of Henry Moore Judy Fayard 2010

Oxo, the company known for ergonomic can openers and graters, this fall introduced a snow brush for cars that has an extension handle and rotating head.

The New Cold Warrior Gwendolyn Bounds 2011

A micro plane zester is a relatively new gadget in the kitchen when you consider how long egg slicers and cheese graters have been around.

Mary Ann Esposito: New Uses for Traditional Kitchen Gadgets Mary Ann Esposito 2011