The Wow Factor: Origami Crane Garnishes
We stumbled across this little doozy of a project at Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories while researching croutons last week, and...wow. That's all we can say. Wow! This looks labor intensive, but imagin...
We stumbled across this little doozy of a project at Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories while researching croutons last week, and...wow. That's all we can say. Wow! This looks labor intensive, but imagin...
More sugar! Halloween is over, but we're not quite finished with the candy. We saw a slideshow of photographer Craig Kanarick's work over at Saveur and thought it was pretty sweet. We could see thes...
This is our kind of art project - the kind you can eat! Martha Stewart uses straight food coloring to get those vibrant colors and an interesting technique for applying them. Even with our limited art...
Pumpkins are a natural, of course, and gourds and squash hold up nicely on a dining room table or mantle for several weeks. Anyone got anything quirky or different to share? ...
Have you been canning this summer? If you're thinking of gifting any of your delicious homemade goodies, here are some pretty labels to help jazz up your canning jars and let your lucky friends and ...
The advertising agency WHYBIN hired for the Sydney International Food Festival is so clever - they've come up with a really neat concept to promote the festival by creating food flags for the various ...
We're enchanted by The Cup and Saucer Collective, a new kitchen and art project from artist Heather Smith Jones and photographer Rachel Saldana. They've just released their inaugural collection, a lo...
Those of us who live in the Bay Area have the (quite decadent) opportunity to nosh on 4505 Meats' amazing chicharrones at any time. We can also check out owner Ryan Farr's butchery demos or taste som...
Threadless, the popular t-shirt company that invites readers to submit and vote on designs, just branched out into the kitchen realm and held Threadcakes — a cake competition! They asked reade...
We love art in the kitchen, especially that which leans towards the nontraditional side of things. We grew up in a house of cows and chickens and although that has its place, we can't help but fall ...
More Julie & Julia! We know, we've written about this movie more than once, and it hasn't even come out yet. But the Times has an interesting article about something that may play a bigger role th...
We're loving this Eat At Home dishtowel! It's been appearing here and there in shops around the web, and we like its vintage forthrightness. It should be right there with the "Wash the Dishes" towel o...
Art installation, or clutter? We just spotted this wall o' fruit stickers in an Apartment Therapy house tour, and we think it's rather charming, in a childlike sort of way. What do you think?...
Andrea at the blog Cooking Books just got married, and she baked her own wedding cake. That alone is a feat (we've watched Faith do the same thing). But Andrea also draped fondant, which is not alw...
Our love for Adam Turman has been well documented over at Apartment Therapy. Having lived in Minnesota for a good portion of our adult lives, we have a hard time not supporting a Twin Cities artist,...
I have been saving this still life for a very special post and a very special day. It is the perfect cake for afternoon tea, and with my house guests leaving tomorrow, I thought it would be an appropr...
Last week's Kitchen Cure assignment asked you to do one small, beautiful thing for your kitchen. If you're just catching up we hope that you're hanging a picture, putting flowers on the table, or doin...
In Week Three of the Kitchen Cure, part of your assignment was to do something beautiful for your kitchen. Here's a shot of our dining table over the weekend—not exactly the kitchen, but close. And ...
These posters from a little French general store on Nantucket remind us of old periodic tables from chemistry class. We spotted the "trees of France" poster over at Apartment Therapy, and when we went...
Looking for a little motivation for dinners this week? Check out these beautiful food shots by Max Wanger! They're definitely as inspirational as they are drool-worthy. ...
Are quivering, fluorescent jellies in baroque shapes perhaps the next big thing in culinary one-upsmanship? Can they replace the perfect macaron, the gourmet cupcake, and elegant sugar cookies to be t...
Do you remember the Nature Matching System? This was a public art project by artist Tattfoo Tan, who created a Pantone-like spread from images of real fruits and vegetables to remind you to consume yo...
We're not too crafty (as we've stated before) so our food and gift packaging at Christmas stays simple. Here's one clever, inexpensive way, though, to make gift tags and wrapping for all those amazing...
I just learned that COPIA, Robert Mondavi's Center for Wine, Food, and Arts has closed. The reason: the economy. They just weren't making enough money to stay open. I visited there over the summer ...
Tournée (tour-nay): Literally, French for "turned." In culinary terms, this describes a specific method for preparing and presenting vegetables by cutting them into uniform oblong shapes. If y...