Stately yet utilitarian, a beautiful wooden cutting board is an essential building block in any home kitchen. It may not hold the lead part—that’s taken by the agile chef’s knife—but it ...

The cutting board — which is always wood, never plastic — suggests rustic simplicity, harkening to a primal nature and the way humans once ate. Often, they seem to also eat with their hands ...

So, if you have a slew of plastic cutting boards that are all scraped up over years of slicing and dicing, now’s the time to toss them out in favor of wood cutting boards, which don’t pose a ...