Do you have this in your kitchen?

Kitchen twine is a kitchen staple -- do you have yours?. Here's everything you need to know -- along with a step-by-step guide to that quintessential function, the butcher's slip knot. With that under your belt, you're just a ball of twine away from making: bacon-wrapped pork loin with roasted apples, boeuf a la ficelle and chicken roulade with red chard, pepitas and chiles over hominy.

-- Rene Lynch