Kids know how to party! Check out the latest festive celebrations from the Apartment Therapy's Family channel, which posts kids' parties every day. We'll be bringing you a roundup of these inspiring parties every week.

• Evelynn's County Fair Party
• Emily's Silver & Polka Dot Party
• Nathan's Carnival Party
• Kanaya's Princess Party
• Bella's Book Party

A good knife is any cook's most important tool. We've shared our favorites, but it's always cool to see what the pros use. Six rockstar chefs recently shared their top knife picks with Details magazine, and interestingly enough, they all had one thing in common:

I can't think of a more perfect person to interview for our Expert Essentials series (see the whole series so far here!) than Sam Mogannam, owner of Bi-Rite Grocery in San Francisco.  Not only did Sam grow up in the grocery store, which was owned by his family, but he went to culinary school and worked as a chef before returning to Bi-Rite to reinvent it from a cooks point of view.  He is absolutely dedicated to helping people love, appreciate, understand, and enjoy food and cooking.  Read on for his lively, engaging list of essential things for a happy home kitchen. 

Q: My boyfriend and I are trying to bring our lunches to work more often. I was wondering if your readers can recommend lunch-specific cookbooks or cookbooks with recipes that transport well? We both have refrigerators, microwaves and toasters at our respective offices.

With their bright colors and futuristic appeal, Dippin' Dots are a kid favorite at carnivals and beyond, but we're much more interested in this adult-friendly update: alcoholic Dippin' Dots! Gizmodo has the full step-by-step instructions for making your own version at home.

As we all know, an apple a day keeps the doctor away — and now we have no excuses! This book will have us looking at apples in a whole new way as we work our way through recipes for apple hand pies, crunchy apple-filled salads, apples roasted with chicken, and applicious drinks and cocktails. Get out your paring knives and your vegetable peelers: it's about to get apple-y up in here.

Are you a fan of Game of Thrones? Were you thrilled when the new season kicked off on March 31? If you're enjoying your fresh helpings of sword 'n' sorcery fantasy goodness as much as we are (yes we are fantasy geeks around here!) then you have to see this lavish lineup of cocktails designed to be sipped with Game of Thrones. From Tyrion to Ygritte, there's a cocktail here for your favorite character. 

If you've been in a cocktail rut, we're about to bust you out of it. In what just happened to be perfectly timed with The Kitchn's Cocktail Week, yesterday New York Magazine unveiled 50 cocktail recipes, one from every state (plus D.C) — all recipes gathered from a country in the throes of a cocktail renaissance They're calling this a "cocktail terroir," or as close as one can get to such a thing: original, innovative recipes often made with local spirits and homemade infusions, syrups, and ingredients. If you get tired of one drink, there are 49 others to try. 

Despite the fact that I'm not a vegetarian, I find that most of my tried-and-true favorite cookbooks are about vegetarian cooking, such as Sundays at Moosewood and Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone.  While Moosewood and VCE are well-known to most of us, I'm pleased to talk today about a well-respected but still lesser-known cookbook: the award winning The Modern Vegetarian Kitchen by chef, cooking instructor, and author Peter Berley.

I'm not talking about your favorite pair of jeans (but if you've found the perfect pair, do tell!). I'm talking about why you party the way you do, and who taught you. I came across my baby book recently, and lost about an hour in the pages. As the first daughter, I was the recipient of some pretty intense birthday parties and a meticulous mother who recorded it all, including my height and weight the year of each party.