Soft leather tote bags in black, camel or berry can be picked up for a very reasonable £60.
It's yet to take off to the same extent in the UK, though food writers Hemsley and Hemsley have a recipe as well as tote bags emblazoned with the slogan "boil your bones", and Scottish game suppliers turned London restaurateurs Wild Game Co added it to their menu last month.
I opt for the tote – an elegant design, in a stylish dark red leather with camel-coloured straps.
And if that means telling slack-jawed, home shopping-narcotised housewives that I have personally thrown in a suede-effect mini tote just for them, as a holiday gift, then I'm going to do it with all the attention to detail I bring to any other of my will-this-do retail enterprises.
Our first job is to choose our style: satchel, messenger or tote.
Many models carried three bags: one leather, one fur, one crocodile, all in a simple tote shape with twisted steel-wire handles.
They are no longer so eager to tote a 50-pound pack for a week in the Tetons, nor hoist themselves up icy Mount Rainier in Microsoft's backyard (Al Gore's recent ascent of that peak notwithstanding).
A backpacker who consults his "Rough Guide" for snippets of up-to-date information in a dark tent is unlikely to tote along a Kindle and a lamp, or a paper book, if he can get the e-book on his backlit phone.It is now only a matter of time until absolutely all books become available, and properly formatted, for mobile phones.
TOTE, a shipping company, has ordered the first container ships built to run on liquefied natural gas.Between a NOC and hard placeFilling up with natural gas is sure to spread as fracking and other new production techniques pick up beyond America; using gas to drive vehicles will in many cases be easier than liquefying it for export or putting it into pipelines.
Its rule-book is some 200 pages long, too big to tote around in a golf bag.
All over the city uniformed police now tote semi-automatic rifles.
