If you do much cooking or baking at home, you probably have several tools to help you. Maybe a favorite cutting board or knife, a blender, a favorite baking dish or pot, or more. I don’t know about you, but these aren’t things I think about that often. I tend to take them for granted, but in reality, they’re extremely helpful, and I likely wouldn’t do nearly as much cooking or baking without them. So, I thought I’d take a minute to appreciate a few kitchen tools. Stand

Have you ever thought about the words we have for food, or how we speak about food? Have you ever wondered if the words you use shape your relationship to food, even in a small way? I started thinking about those things after listening to an Earth Day podcast from Science Friday. It was about how people describe nature, and one of the guests was poet Kimberly Blaeser, founding director of Indigenous Nations Poets. At one point, Kimberly talked about how poetry changes whe