The plain wooden toothpick is among the sim­plest of manufactured things. It consists of a single part, made of a single material, and is intended for a single purpose, from which it takes its name.
Most bakers know to stick a toothpick into the center of cake to check if it's done. If it comes out sticky with batter, the cake stays in the oven till the toothpick can be drawn out clean. Bakers ...
We’ve all seen that too-cool guy in movies chew on a toothpick to assert his fully unbothered persona. But if he were to swallow that toothpick accidentally, that guy—and his body—would be extremely ...
A San Francisco artist has spent the past 39 years perfecting the art of toothpick modeling, a genre we can safely say he now has the authority on. Steven Backman took up the unusual hobby at just ...