As lawn and garden equipment goes, none seems to have as many names as the noble weed trimmer — aka weed wacker, weed eater, weed cutter, string trimmer, strimmer or, in some circles, brush trimmer ...

I saw a video last year on YouTube where a Russian maker built a rather elaborate rig to turn PET plastic bottles into a flat, very narrow noodle-like “string” that proved to be surprisingly strong.

For the past 50 years, Dr. Stanley Gross has been hand-crafting orchestra string instruments in his spare time. Gross, a 97-year-old Greenwich resident, took up the hobby in 1960 during his years ...

No cheese is as easily snackable as string cheese, so it's nice to know that it doesn't get its characteristic pull-apart texture from artificial additives. Quite the contrary, the original string ...