"uses for vinegar" news and stories

My strongest memory involving vinegar (if one can have more than one memory that involves vinegar) is one of my older brothers dipping his french fries in it. He loved it, though I never saw the appeal.

But vinegar has many other uses too, both as food and in other ways, as explained in Vicki Lansky's book Vinegar: 400 Various, Versatile, and Very Good Uses You've Probably Never Thought Of. For example, did you know you can add a teaspoon of vinegar to a recipe that's too salty? Or that you can use it to clean countertops and fireplace bricks and also get rid of ants?

It also says that you can rub vinegar on the cut end of uncooked ham to prevent mold. I never really knew that was a problem, but I'm glad there's a solution for it.