It’s been a while since I’ve written a TIBTIL post, but this gadget really earns it. It’s the Chef’n GarlicZoom. Chef’n is a local company and they make a lot of cool stuff, but this is my favorite thing of theirs so far. I generally try to follow the Alton Brown philosophy of avoiding unitaskers, [...]

A few years ago, I was browsing Powell’s and I came across this beauty of an old cookbook. It’s a 1937 edition of My New Better Homes and Gardens Cookbook (1938 printing), complete with many clippings and hand-written recipes. There’s a lot of interesting stuff in there, and it’s fun to try to guess the [...]