SALADO — Well, it wasn’t really Jim Bowie’s knife, but it looked enough like one for an Alamo curator to put it on display for 10 years. Then, the story goes, U.S. officials found Mexico had ...

Kevin Kent vividly remembers the first time he used a Japanese knife. It was about 20 years ago, when he was a chef in London, U.K., and still believed that German knives were the best.

KnifeCenter In other words, he paid some dues before daring to design his own pocket knife. The result both pays tribute to his heritage and looks to the future. Regarding the former, it features ...