While on our brief visit to LA a couple of weeks ago we stopped into the Jonathan Adler store on Melrose to poke around a bit, and I'll admit it, Jon had to physically drag me out of there. And I did not go willingly. I was not going to leave that store without taking something home with me, so I splurged on these. And no, we will not use them to season our food, no, they will sit right above the fireplace with all the other sculpturally interesting things I collect from my travels. Like that boar's tooth I took home as a trophy from that little run-in I had in the Atlas Mountains of North Africa.