Ode to my Pepper Grinder

Last year my loverly girlfriend received a Sur la Table gift certificate for one holiday or another. Unfortunately here in the Burque we have a dearth of Sur la Table's and an overabundance of fuckin Williams-Sonoma stores. To me, Williams-Sonoma should only be entered by people who hope to appear like they know how to cook. It should be avoided by anyone who actually cooks on a regular basis. I mean if you like to pay 3-10 times more than you could by going to a real restaurant supply store, for almost anything kitchen related, then by all means shop away. But if you dont like to be sneered at by late middle aged white women who HAD to get a job just so they didnt have to be around when their Hummer driving husbands returned home after a hard day trading stocks, stinking of their 25 year old secretary's perfume, then you should either try a real restaurant supply store, or try Sur la Table.

Sur la Table is like a cleaned up, mall worthy restaurant supply store, with a French name, and everyone knows, the French know food right? Their prices are decent, their selection rocks, but the best thing is their sale racks. On one of our multiyearly travels to the Mile High City, we went to the Cherry Creek Sur la Table. Now I had been to a couple of these stores so I knew what to expect, Benski hadnt visited one before so she was unaware of the Sur la Goodness. Anyway, in the door I immediately go for the sales rack and find, to my immediate joy, this Peugeot Pepper Mill on sale. Now, these things are regularly $50... for a pepper grinder. Now at the time I found that to be OUTRAGEOUS. This one on the other hand was 50% off with another 50% off of that. Yes this mill was $12.50. Oh and it had a chip in the paint, shucks. Damaged or not, I knew we needed a new grinder. We managed to spend another $150 bucks in about 45 minutes before going to Cherry Cricket with x Steve-O x for The Best Burger in Denver and then going to DWR to drool on Noguchi tables. All the while I was wondering how well this thing would perform.
Once I got this thing home though, I knew that should this one ever fail I will immediately go throw down $50 for a new one without batting an eye. This thing grinds pepper like all pepper mills should, quickly, quietly, easily and most important, adjustably. With a mere twist of the stainless steel ball on the top you can adjust from rough restaurant salad grind to fine powder grind in no time. Now I have been using this thing daily for about a year, and it has never performed at anything less than perfection every twist. I wish every kitchen tool I have worked this well.

I have no idea whether this is the same company that makes Peugeot cars, if it is I damn sure wish they'd start importing the 206 to the US so I could purchase one immediately. But if you're in the market for a good mill, or are looking for the perfect gift for that cook that has everything, find them any of these products and I guarantee they will be over spicing everything for about 2 weeks just for the chance to use this thing. I swear they arent paying me off either.