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Mark Bittman did at article a couple of years ago about stocking an entire kitchen on $300.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/09/dining/09mini.html

Interestingly: "I started with an eight-inch, plastic-handle stainless alloy chef’s knife for $10. This is probably the most essential tool in the kitchen. People not only obsess about knives (and write entire articles about them), but you can easily spend over $100 on just one. Yet go into any restaurant kitchen and you will see most of the cooks using this same plastic-handle Dexter-Russell tool. (Go to the wrong store and you’ll spend $20 or even $30 on the same knife.)"