He got to looking at the waffle iron more than the waffle - the waffle iron itself. It was a little 6-inch 1930s kind of an Art Deco-style waffle iron, and he got looking at the pattern on it and ...

The waffle pattern, he hypothesized while watching his wife make breakfast, would result in a more versatile tread — one that would work on this new artificial surface, but also off it, too. He poured ...