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MixMyGranola: Custom Granola at the Click of a Mouse

Do you like granola? We do. We always think about making it ourselves, but never seem to get around to it, sadly. So we jumped at the chance to try out a new online product: MixMyGranola, which lets y...

City Dish Rack and Stacking Canisters: Two Small Kitchen Solutions from Urban Kitchen

We get a lot of questions about two things that tend to take up excess room in the kitchen: storage canisters and dish racks. We've explored dish racks with small footprints, but here's one that looks...

Neighborhood Fruit: Where To Find Fruit On Public Land

Storyville Coffee Company: Fresh Coffee at Your Door

We recently had the opportunity to try out fresh coffee beans from Storyville, a Seattle coffee company that sends their beans direct to your door. But this isn't just any mail-order coffee service. S...

More Online Resources for Heirloom Beans

We've talked a lot about Rancho Gordo and their heirloom beans this month, and we're not finished yet -- there's one more recipe from Heirloom Beans coming up this afternoon, and we've saved the best ...

Foodzie: Etsy for Foodies?

First there was Etsy, an explosively popular online marketplace for crafters, artisans, and designers of all stripes. Now comes Foodzie, which hopes to replicate Etsy's success, but in the area of fin...

Online Resource: Regional Best

RegionalBest.com is a new e-commerce site offering hundreds of foods that are raised, caught or produced by local artisans. Foods appealing to me right now are Maryland blue crab cakes, Idaho grass-fe...

Ice Cream Artisan: Delicieuse

2503 Artesia Blvd. Redondo Beach, CA 90278 310.793.7979 www.icedreamonline.com When it comes to ice cream, my partner and I could not have more different tastes. He is an ice cream fiend, known to s...

Store Review: Macy's Cellar

We'll admit, a trip to Macy's in Herald Square in New York during the holiday season is not something we'd wish on our worst enemy. It's madness down there. However... Macy's Cellar is a one-stop shop...

Get Your Knives Sharpened By Mail

Yesterday we had our kitchen knives sharpened by a wonderful woman named Louise. She has a mobile knife sharpening business where she pulls up to your home with a trailer that contains her tiny, perfe...

Sale Alert! Linens 'n Things is Going Out of Business

Did you know that Linens 'n Things is closing its stores? We saw this post over at AT:NY, and we can't say we're surprised. Bed, Bath, & Beyond does seem much more ubiquitous, well-stocked, and we...

Source for Stone-Ground Grits: Anson Mills

And since we're writing about grits, we thought we'd give you a good mail-order source for an exceptional, stone-ground variety. Anson Mills in Columbia, SC, grows organic, heirloom corn and sells ...

Web Resource: Gourmet Food Store

If you're hosting a fancy dinner party or want to pamper a loved one with a gourmet meal, check out the Gourmet Food Store....

No More Plastic Bags: Organic Cotton Produce Bags

Although we've been carrying canvas totes in lieu of disposable grocery bags for some time, until a few months ago we held onto a stash of plastic produce and Ziploc bags for smaller groups of items. ...

Web Resource: Penzey's Spices

We just love getting the Penzey's catalog in the mail. Flipping through it and poring over each spice photograph and description is a food lover's wet dream. Just reading about a spice we've never t...

Buying Food On eBay

A few years ago, a friend tipped us off to a vanilla bean seller on eBay who was selling a pound of vanilla beans very cheaply. We checked out the listing and made a bid; within a few hours we had wo...

Source for Salumi: Boccalone in San Francisco

Even if you don't live in San Francisco, it's worth a peek at this salumi store's website, if only for the tagline: "Tasty Salty Pig Parts." There are also recipes and the opportunity to sign up for a...

Web Resource: Vintage Cookbook

Have you ever wanted to find a cookbook from your grandmother's or great-grandmother's generation? Or maybe a cookbook that's out of print, from a restaurant long gone, or from a cultural generation ...

More Food Twitters To Follow

Last week, we wrote about Twitter and Whole Foods. Today we'll provide a roundup of some popular food-related Twitters that the home cook may be interested in following....

Whole Foods Twitter

Twitter is a free micro-blogging service that allows users to send updates of up to 140 characters in length. Most updates come from mobile phones, which makes Twitter an useful service for blogging ...

iPhone Apps for the Home Cook

Ah, the iPhone. Love it or hate it, it's here to stay and has some useful applications for the home cook. Read on ......

Bar Item: Metal Bendy Straws

In our Plum Caipirinha post last week, many readers asked about the metal bendy straw we used in the drink....

NYC Pottery Source: Terrafirma Ceramics

We had absolutely no reason to buy this serving platter for ourselves over the weekend, but we couldn't resist. That delicate, lace-like pattern that looks so modern on a rustic piece of pottery was t...

Web Resource: Honey Locator

If you're trying to find local honey or a specific type of honey (Black Locust, Tupelo, or Gallberry?) this website may be what you need....