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...Massimo Morozzi: Alessi Bottle Opener The Italian company Alessi has produced a witty kitchen bibelot from nearly every item of houseware. Now it has got around to the lowly bottle opener. Perhaps inspired by a mental picture of millions of infantilized men sucking on beer bottles as they watch football (or soccer) on TV, Morozzi used the baby rattle as a model, producing a jumbo-size plastic opener that is both playful and elegant. It comes in black and white and -- yes -- blue and pink...
...beginning of a lifetime of involvement with fresh foods. Chez Panisse, the restaurant she opened in Berkeley, Calif., in 1971, ranks among the best in the country. As a chef and food activist, she "may be the most influential figure in the past 30 years of the American kitchen," says Gourmet magazine. Waters, 61, talked with TIME's BARBARA ISENBERG about why consuming and appreciating natural foods is so important...
Instead of buying herbs in bunches at the store, I buy pots of herbs. I keep them on a back step or in the kitchen, and they last. They are everything to my cooking. You can change the way tomatoes are cut and which herbs go on them, and it tastes like a new dish each time. Also, when you go to the market, you can see what's there and then decide what to cook. You may want a soup and that's fine, but you may not know what kind of soup until you see what is seasonal...
Ramsden, 61, is typical of many boomers and preboomers. They want to help make a better world, but they're busy. As for the unpaid work their mothers did--stuffing envelopes, ladling out soup in a church kitchen--forget it. Some, like Ramsden, will donate a few hours to such efforts, but most boomers, most of the time, are unwilling to offer themselves up as just another warm body...
...brother was in my class. We became friends, and then I romanced her at Charlie’s Kitchen,” Fingleton says. He asks me if I know of the place. Being a freshman, I say no. “It used to be down near the river, a dumpy little place,” he waxes, nostalgically. “I had absolutely no money, [but] I wanted to take her out on dates...