21.   For starters, there were the onion goggles, which looked like lab glasses and theoretically kept you from crying when you cut an onion.

22.   Meanwhile, cut the onions in half then thinly slice.

23.   People cry when you cut an onion into pieces.

24.   Tina Anchin has found a novel way to cut onions without tears.

25.   Today, as an apprentice at the Ryland Inn, an acclaimed restaurant in Whitehouse, N.J., she is learning how to cut onions.

26.   When onions are cut and their cell structure disturbed, allicin, a volatile substance that irritates the eyes, is released.