Brett Braley-Palko

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Brett F. Braley-Palko (Baron St. Maur) is a freelance writer and marketing consultant based on his farm in rural Pennsylvania with his husband and a household zoo of dogs and cats. Brett is interested in gardening, baking, languages, chicken rearing, literature (particularly the Interwar period in Britain), aristocracy, and the noblesse oblige. When not tottering around, Brett has worked and written for international publications and has consulted or produced content for a variety of companies. You can find his work at brettfbraley.com. He is working on his first novel.

Lifestyle

A Kitchen is like a Man’s Wardrobe

I am driven mad nowadays with the need for every possible kitchen scenario to be instantly and effectively treated with a gadget that can only do one specific thing. I got a targeted ad the other day for a handy-dandy countertop egg steamer. “Perfect every time!” it exclaimed at me in bold font. Well, I thought, those poor dears who bought theirs. Surely they don’t have running water and literally any sized pan.