If you're making a rotisserie chicken at home, you'll need to truss the bird before cooking it. But how much twine do you need? Here's a handy tip.

String, specifically cotton butcher’s or kitchen twine, is one of the most useful things you can have in your kitchen. Think about it: With just a simple length of twine, you can tie roasts ...

“Moodus is the cradle of the twine making industry in this country,” declared a Hartford Courant article from March 1921, “for in that town, it is claimed, was manufactured the first cotton ...