“I feel like every woman who likes cooking has been given a stack of cutesy vintage aprons with frills,” Heather Cahill, the general manager Pizzeria Beddia in Philly, told me recently. “But man, give ...

Sometimes people just give me aprons. Like single-purpose kitchen gear or novelty cookbooks, they’re one of those gifts people gravitate toward for the friend or family member who makes food. Some of ...