Remember the lemon squeezer ?

We were lucky enough to be living in northern Italy and found wonderful shopping opportunities – silk factories, Armani outlets and the Alessi factory , which required a car ferry across Lago d’Orta. There we had a chance to survey all the wonderful kitchenalia, mostly stainless steel but some plastic. On the bottom of each was a coloured sticker – in stock/out of stock/available as a second etc. So, there were many friends and family members who received gifts from there and of course I took advantage of it for myself and the ubiquitous lemon squeezer is one of those pieces. It’s sometimes seen in glossy magazines and on the occasional TV advert but is also in several museums around the world as an example of elegant design and engineering. And it works very well, too.