A few days ago I took out my new cast-iron waffle maker and gave it a shot. The nonstick waffle maker that I had broke down ages ago. It just couldn't handle the effort of making waffles for tons of hungry little kids. I'm not kidding about the 'tons'. There may be just a few of them, but when they bear down upon me in hunger it feels like tons. They want tons, anyway. It's incredible how much they can eat when they feel like it. Anyway, I decided to make waffles. I might have ...