Is it time for your mid-day tea break? Then pour your self a cuppa and learn how to make authentic Cornish pasties in this short but entertaining video from The Guardian, a UK newspaper. Our cook today is Kay Bolitho and she's making her pasties as her mother and grandmother did before her in a delightfully eccentric manor house kitchen. More

You probably know Nealey Dozier from one of her delicious recipes here at The Kitchn (Remember monkey bread? Pumpkin rice krispie treats? Cheesy corn bake?) But she has been getting a lot of attention today for something entirely different: Her now-fiance's utterly charming marriage proposal, which took the form of a stop-motion video with LEGO minifigs and some sweet kitchen touches. Wanna see it? More

With a packed school semester ahead of me, I am looking for a weekly routine that will let me prepare healthy weeknight dinners so quickly, I won't be tempted by takeout. In this video, cookbook author Tamar Adler demonstrates — beautifully and without words — how easy it is to spend an afternoon cleaning and cooking enough vegetables to get you through a busy week. More

Apartment Therapy recently featured these videos from IKEA that show some solutions for small spaces. We wanted to especially point out this video that shows a country-style kitchen, in a small city apartment. Take a look at how they deal with a small space in the city — just 7 square meters, or 75 square feet: More

This fall the School of Journalism at UC Berkeley is offering a 13-week course called Edible Education: The Rise and Future of the Food Movement. It's purpose is to provide a forum to explore the many aspects and challenges that the so-called food movement is facing as it works to change and reform our industrial food system. Developed by well-known writer and UCB professor Michael Pollan and People's Grocery's (Oakland, CA) Executive Director Nikki Henderson, the course is structured around several impressive guest lectures that are being held on the UCB campus. The lectures are also open to the public and are being made available (for free!) on video. More

Even though we know better, it's hard for many of us city and suburban people to remember the daily labor and enormous risk that a small farmer takes to grow our food. This latest episode from The Perennial Plate is a powerful reminder of how quickly a farmer can be brought to ruin and what we can do to help.

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Grinding a teaspoon or two of pepper is easy, but what if you need a large amount of freshly-ground pepper?

America's Test Kitchen has an inventive solution, using a tool we don't usually bring into the kitchen: a power drill! More

The first episode of Ree Drummond's new cooking show, The Pioneer Woman, airs this Saturday. Check out a preview of the episode after the jump! More

Have you seen the series of five videos that Gilt Taste ran a few months ago, each depicting a recipe for a course in what looks like a wonderful, magical dinner party? Called By the Smoke, the series is by Ithai Schori and Jennifer Pelka and takes place in a cabin in the Catskills on a rainy night. Read on for my favorite course, which includes an ingeniously way to evenly toast the notoriously difficult to brown pine nuts. More

What's even better than a homemade chocolate chip cookie? A homemade chocolate chip cookie made by a robot.

A team at MIT is developing a robot baker able to bake a batch of cookies from scratch. See the robot in action below! More