The very first thing I did when moving into my 100-year-old house a decade ago was install a dishwasher; I couldn’t wait one minute to have a machine do all the dishwashing. But there are some things ...

When I started out as a pastry cook, my boss handed me a plastic Matfer bowl scraper. "The only tool you'll ever need," he said. It soon became an extension of my hand. It's flexible enough to get ...