Painfully Delicious

Last night, I followed a really good recipe I found in the L.A. Times (http://www.latimes.com/features/food/la-fo-calcook-rec1-20130202,0,3638941.story). It's for lentils with kale and butternut squash. Like many of my favorite recipes, this one calls for diced onion. ... Herewith, some promising ideas for how to avoid those onion fumes that sting and make us cry ~ and even though this is one of them, the rest are much easier than the questionable cutting-it-underwater trick (slideshow): http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/04/chopping-onions-tear-free_n_1181225.html#s585761&title=Wear_Your_Goggles