Once in a while a product takes on mythical characteristics that have little or nothing to do with their original mandate. Over the years, lists of these alternative uses were photocopied and passed hand-to-hand. Later on, they were faxed from office to office, and now they’re posted all over the Internet. Somewhere in my files [...]
I grew up in Brooklyn in the 50s and 60s, so bagels were an integral part of my culinary life. When I moved upstate to attend college, culture shock took the form of an almost complete absence of decent baked goods in general, and bagels in particular. After college I moved back to Brooklyn, and [...]
Growing up in a Skippy household, I naturally cast a jaundiced eye on those weirdo moms who foisted Jif on their benighted offspring. Thus imprinted, I remained a Skippy loyalist for many years. Despite the grocery store’s ever-widening peanut butter shelf, I felt no urge to experiment. For me, Skippy was the One True Peanut [...]
Although wine in boxes and screw-top bottles can be very good indeed, you might occasionally find yourself in a situation that calls for a corkscrew. The simplest of these devices consists of a helix-shaped length of metal — the screw — with a point at one end and a handle at the other.The idea is [...]
