When I was growing up, skinniness was inniness. To keep our bottoms perfectly pert, we girls lived on a daily diet of half a celery frond. Our obsession with thinness meant we wouldn’t even cook with thick-bottomed saucepans.
But now, big bottoms are in vogue. A full derrière is de rigueur. Yep, all that dieting was for nothing (which, ironically, was all we