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We're gearing up for fall around here, dreaming up new ideas and recipes. One thing we'd like to do a little more of is food for kids. We've noticed a big response from our readers in the past when we've talked about food for toddlers and tips for cooking with your kids, and of course cooking for little ones can be such an important part of cooking at home! So, if we do more with and for kids at The Kitchn, what would you like to see? This is your chance to tell us what would be most helpful and interesting to you. Recipes? Ideas? Encouragement? Product reviews? Snacks? Healthy desserts? Tips for getting kids, younger and older, into the kitchen? We'd love to hear from you! More

Happy Labor Day from The Kitchn! This is a holiday that has been around since 1882, when the Central Labor Union of New York City decided it would be good to create "a day off for the working citizens." So, with the exception of a few goodies (two new recipes for you, coming right up!) we working citizens are taking a day off — are you? More

Urša's Charming, Organized Kitchen

Have you browsed through all the entries in Small Cool Kitchens 2012? We've posted many, many small and inspiring kitchens in this year's event, and now is your chance to mark (and save) your favorites! There are just 36 a few hours left before the finalists are chosen and we move on to final voting. You have until Thursday at 11:59pm to choose your favorites. Finalists will be announced on Friday!

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Due to an overwhelming amount of entries and response to Small Cool Kitchens 2012 we have decided to extend entry posting until Tuesday July 31. Favoriting on all entries will be extended to 11:59pm EST Thursday August 2.

Finalists will be announced Friday August 3, and voting on finalists will follow through the weekend and end 11:59pm EST Monday August 6. The winner will be announced Tuesday, August 7.

It's time to take a closer peek at the Small Cool Kitchens 2012 prizes! One Grand Prize winner and three Runners-Up will receive bundles of kitchen goodies — some of our favorite practical tools and cookware, including products from All-Clad, Le Creuset, Cuisinart, Edgeware, Dreamfarm, and Thermapen. Read on to see more about each prize package... More

Patriotic Recipe: Mixed Berry Fool

Happy Independence Day from all of us here at The Kitchn. We hope you're enjoying a splendid summer day off (like us!) and cooking up some good food, with good company all around. We'll see you back here Thursday. (And pssst! We're kicking off our annual Small Cool Kitchens contest later this week.) Happy 4th of July! More

Hello, readers! We spend a lot of time here at The Kitchn on our readers' good questions and requests, but this week we're devoting every single post to topics specifically requested by our readers. It's a bit of an experiment, and we hope that you play along with us and our loyal readers (and commenters) and see what can find in our readers' requests this week. We pulled our post topics from our readers' requests here and here; we'll do as much as we can with your requests, including pulling up some posts from our archives that have already answered questions you're asking now.

So, welcome to Reader Request Week — we appreciate you all so much! Come along with us...

As editors of The Kitchn, we receive a lot of products for editorial consideration: Small kitchen gadgets, cookbooks, jars of specialty ingredients. Our closet is overflowing, and it's time for us to declutter, so I'm putting together mystery boxes of goodies for our readers. Two lucky readers will get a Kitchn mystery goodie box this month. What will be inside? Cookbooks, a gadget or two, a few little surprises. Read on to enter! More

We're getting reports that The Kitchn's RSS feeds are not working properly for some readers. Also, some are seeing double posts in their feeds. This appears to be a problem with Google Reader specifically for people subscribed to the old URL for our RSS feed (which redirects to our new URL). Until we can figure out what is happening on Google's side, we recommend you unsubscribe from the old feed and subscribe directly to the new URL, which seems to fix the problem. Humblest apologies for the trouble! Thanks for reading!