Tuesday, March 10th, 2009

Do you press?

Everyone loves to diss the garlic press. Anthony Bourdain, in his culinary tome Kitchen Confidential, writes of the gadget, “I don’t know what that junk is that squeezes out of the end of those things, but it ain’t garlic.” According to Wikipedia, British cookbook writer Elizabeth David once wrote an essay called “Garlic Presses Are Utterly Useless.” And then you’ve got Sarah Moulton, who on her PBS show Sarah’s Secrets, said that she does not publicily condone the use of the garlic press and yet admitted that she and most of the chefs in the test kitchen use one at home, behind closed doors.

Why the hypocrisy, Sarah? Apparently, it’s trendy to hate the gadget that makes life easy for millions of cooks. I was a hater for a while