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Hygienic wax wraps are a green alternative to packing your food. (Getty Images) When wrapping food in the home it's easy to find yourself reaching for plastic. But a green alternative, that's also ...

Dear Heloise: I'm a messy cook, and because I am, I usually lay two sheets of wax paper on my counter or a couple of sheets of plastic wrap before I start breaking eggs or dusting a pan with flour.

What a dark time it was in the American kitchen: 1926, a year before the dawn of the Age of Convenient Wrapping. There was butcher paper, a waxed paper available in sheets from the meat market, but ...