A great wooden spoon is like having a magic wand in the kitchen — it won’t scratch your pots or leach chemicals, and of course, wooden spoons are the tool for doing the old "coat the back of a spoon" ...

There are few things I absolutely have to have in a kitchen. I don’t need fancy pots (though Le Creuset makes some beautiful ones), or impressive tools I will rarely use (though I began asking for a ...