I've been working on the kitchen guide on and off for a week, and many readers are getting impatient. It will, I promise, be up by 6 pm this evening, plenty of time for shopping. Sorry it's late, but it takes a long time, and it's been a very hectic fall.
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Megan McArdle is a columnist at Bloomberg View and a former senior editor at The Atlantic. Her new book is The Up Side of Down.