For my first Christmas home after being away at college, my dad gave me a microplane. “This tool is invaluable,” he said gravely. I laughed and thanked him and thought maybe he was being a little ...

What goes around comes around in more ways than one. Microplane, the company that added slender ultra-sharp vertical graters to kitchens years ago, now has a rotary grater for hard cheeses. Will it ...

For years, I had a four-sided box grater than I only used one side of. It was great at shredding cheese or potatoes, but anything smaller than that put me at risk of almost taking off part of my ...

When I went to restaurants as a child my favourite moment was the "say when" of the waiter cloaking your red spaghetti in a white cloud of parmesan. They would have to do the hard graft of grinding a ...