What the Pros Use

Pro kitchen tools for the home chef, all under $10. (By Nick Czap)

Crud Busters

New dish scrubbers make scouring easy. (By Louisa Chu)

Down-Home Prosciutto

The country ham is our native prosciutto or serrano, though most Southerners wouldn’t dream of throwing an uncooked leg on a deli slicer and shaving some to go with the asparagus. Most Northerners, meanwhile, have never heard of... (By Sue Moore)

The salesman had had quite enough of my waffling between two overcoats. Howard Turkell, 60-ish and a garment center veteran, was trying to be polite with the weirdo hipster kid who’d turned up at his third-floor shop that... (By Jim Leff)

There’s been a silicone revolution in cooking implements in the past few years, and the newest super silicone helper is a brush for basting food and applying glazes. ... (By C. Thi Nguyen)

More men are doing their own food shopping, but, experts say, they find grocery stores “overwhelming.” (By Tea Austen Weaver)

The ranks of female sommeliers have grown over the past decade, but do these very women still harbor outdated gender stereotypes? (By Christy Harrison)

I’m at T-minus 24 hours to winetasting. Oh, I didn’t tell you: Tomorrow I’ll be drinking glass after glass of priceless Bordeaux atop a mountain in New Hampshire. (By Jim Leff)