Most cooks I know—including me—hate wearing gloves in the kitchen. That’s probably why you can find so many of us ignoring health-department regulations that prohibit touching food with bare hands.

You’re at a deli. You watch the cook take the trash out, or have a cigarette, or step away to heed nature’s call, and then come back to the kitchen just in time to make your sandwich. “Put some gloves ...

Although we're moving away from being a throw-away society, single-use nitrile gloves are still widely utilized in healthcare settings. That may not always be the case, however, thanks to the ...

It was Thanksgiving morning and I was making ratatouille for a family dinner using a mandoline slicer for the first time. Everything was fine … until I sliced off the tip of my index finger. While ...