KITCHENWARE Housewares NEWS& Review Vol. 26 • Issue 6 November 2020 • $7.00
A Little Black Among All the Gray
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A New Cook to Buss at Kiss the Cook BY LORRIE BAUMANN
Veteran chef Dean Chambers has joined Kiss the Cook in Wimberley, Texas, as its new Store Manager. Owner Bren Isgitt says she’s not retiring, merely taking some of the load off her shoulders so that she won’t have to continue running the store with only her husband’s help. Before the outbreak of COVID-19, Isgitt ran the store with three part-time staff who’ve been unable to continue working in the midst of the pandemic because they’re part of the at-risk population for whom it’s still not safe to be mingling with the public even though Isgitt’s store has been allowed to reopen. One bright spot amid all this is that business has actually improved since Kiss the Cook was allowed to reopen in midApril after six weeks of economic shut-down. “It was a real slow start, but May, June and July have been really good,” Isgitt said. “Usually August is not a good month because of school starting, but because the kids are at home, they’re not spending money on school clothes and school Cont. on page 10
Food Containers for the Plastic Purgers BY LORRIE BAUMANN
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Solving the Problems of the Wood Cutting Board
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Under its Minimal brand, Nexten Pro offers a range of products that provide eco-friendly options for avoiding school cafeteria lines and company break rooms without contributing to the problem of plastic waste. The United States is among the countries with the highest per capita levels of plastic waste generation in the world, according to a study published in Science magazine in 2015. According to National Geographic, quoting a study published in the peer-reviewed journal Science Advances, only about 9 percent of all the plastic that’s been manufactured in the last six decades has ever been recycled. Plastic takes more than 400 years to degrade, so that, of the 8.3 billion metric tons of plastic that has been manufactured over the last 60 years, the vast majority of it is still in the environment somewhere. In countries with efficient waste management systems, much of it is discarded into landfills. About 12 percent of it has been incinerated. A lot of it’s shipped off to poorer nations to collect along the shorelines and wash into the Cont. on page 10