http://www.npr.org/2016/11/27/503489...ort-of-cooking

First paragraphs:

LINDA WERTHEIMER, HOST:

You may have spent a lot of time in the kitchen lately, laboring over your Thanksgiving meal or maybe feeding a brood of relatives in for the holiday. Perhaps you use conventional cooking tools - spatulas, ladles, graters. Or perhaps you use some state of the art flashy device like a crepe batter trowel spreader or a home macaroon-baking kit. If it's the latter, Keith Blanchard would like a word. He is the former editor in chief of Maxim magazine and the author of an article that appeared in The Wall Street Journal last week called "Why Hipster Cooking Gizmos Are Killing Cooking." He joins us on the line.

Thanks for being with us, Keith.

KEITH BLANCHARD: Thanks for having me, Linda.

WERTHEIMER: So why are hipster cooking gizmos killing cooking?

BLANCHARD: Well, there's something that runs afoul of the comfort side of comfort cooking when you bring in this sort of hipster-influenced individual gadget-related cooking, where suddenly everything has 54 ingredients and it's Stumptown this and artisanally hand-folded that...

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And here's the WSJ article:

http://www.wsj.com/articles/why-hips...ing-1479831681


Lenona.