Off The Hook
April 13, 2018

The apron

By Melanie Behrens

I don’t think our children know what an apron is. Oh yes, you see chefs wearing one sometimes in a restaurant, and famous people on TV cooking wearing one. But they are not the aprons of the old days.
An apron keeps your clothes from contaminating the food and keeps you from getting food on you...

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