Article: Back to the Future; A Trip With the Guru of Grilled Cheese

Trees have age rings; humans have small, specialized kitchen appliances and equipment to mark the stages of their lives.

Those who date their first kitchen to the late 1960s had to merely dust off their fondue pots and pressure cookers when the fads fluttered anew last year. Twenty years from now, it's liable to be fajita pans and woks.

Today, however, housewares manufacturers are providing the possibility of a renaissance for the grilled cheese sandwich maker.

Those of us old enough to vividly remember John Kennedy as president also remember grilled cheese sandwich makers. Every house seemed to have one, and some of them were "convertible" into waffle irons with a change of plates.

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