BACK WHEN we were having dinners at other people’s homes, any time I saw my host struggling with a less-than-desirable corkscrew, I felt duty-bound to provide an alternative. Take, for example, my ...

Scott High walks past a display case with shelves filled with dozens of colorful rabbit corkscrews, each sporting a lever resembling a bunny’s long ears. “We originally put just two of those in this ...

These corkscrews are among the 8,000 in Scott High's collection. The handle of the corkscrew shown at top left is a boar's tusk. The handle of the corkscrew at bottom left is the doorhandle of a ...

I love tools and have spent hours in hardware stores, flea markets, and antique shows contemplating their culture and evolution and respecting their singular purposes. The tool that I and my children ...

The smoked turkey and the cobbler were already gone when I lined up outside the Corkscrew BBQ trailer at a quarter past noon on a recent Saturday. Said items were inscribed, with hot-pink marker, on ...

In 1974, two corkscrew connoisseurs, Bernard Watney and Timothy Diener, founded The International Correspondence of Corkscrew Addicts, a society with 50 members, all crazy about old corkscrews. I say ...