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In the kitchen, as elsewhere, our cultural values evolve in fits and starts. A particular way of doing something can look normal for so long until suddenly, it looks completely wrong. Take plastic wrap—or rather, don’t.

For years, I used plastic wrap (which I call clingfilm, because I am British) without a moment’s doubt every time I put leftovers away after a meal. To have in a drawer a roll of plastic, with its little serrated cutter, felt as essential and inoffensive an aspect of my kitchen as the jar of wooden spoons. I used plastic wrap for everything from wrapping pastry dough while it rested to covering a bowl of roast peppers as they cooled to help the skins steam off.

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