Gift Guide 2015: The Most Spectacular Bowl
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I bought a burl cherry bowl years ago at The Gardner in Berkeley, stunned by its sheer beauty. I shipped it all the way home, only to discover that it was made in Western Massachussets, close to where I live.
But I've never been sorry. I love this bowl; every single person who steps into my kitchen stops to stroke it, and just looking at it sitting on my counter makes me happy.
Give one of these hand-turned burl bowls to a friend and he or she will think of you every time they look at it. And I promise you, that will be often; this is not a bowl you put away and take out on special occasions. It's a bowl you want to live with.