Most cooks I know—including me—hate wearing gloves in the kitchen. That’s probably why you can find so many of us ignoring health-department regulations that prohibit touching food with bare hands.

You’re at a deli. You watch the cook take the trash out, or have a cigarette, or step away to heed nature’s call, and then come back to the kitchen just in time to make your sandwich. “Put some gloves ...

California lawmakers have pulled an about-face on a controversial change to the state’s health code that bans restaurant workers from touching food with their bare hands and requires chefs and ...