CULINARY RESPECT & STEEPED PASSIONS
In the kitchen, I’m likely to reserve expressions of passion for serendipitous encounters of a spoony and barely-culinary nature or with an ingredient striking and rare. Kitchen gadgets? Not so much. That said, though I have the deepest respect and appreciation of the design of my instant pot and all it’s done for me, it’s the black digital gooseneck electric kettle that took me twenty-plus years to find (during which time I insisted on remaining uncompromisingly e-kettle-free) that moves me to something like love. When the landscape’s bare and the soil needs tilling, a good dog and the right kettle can do wonders for the spirit.