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Back to Basics: The Mashing Fork
By bon appétit Magazine, on Thu May 8, 2008 8:51am PDT
Being a kitchen-gear crazy, I like to think that I'm pretty up on what's out there, but the other night I realized that sometimes you've got to go back to stay ahead. I was watching a very early episode of The French Chef, Julia Child's groundbreaking television series of the 1960s, and there she was, majestic and warbly, expounding on the lowly spud and wielding a mashing fork, a gizmo I'd never laid eyes on. It looked like a kitchen fork that had been bent by one-too-many mash-ups with a tater, but, in fact, the bend was built-in, the better to press the tubers into chunky submission. Read More »
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