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Quick Tip: How to Get Grease Stains Out of Clothes

One thing about cooking is it sure is messy! Even when we remember to wear an apron, we still wind up with splatters all over our sleeves. The very worst are the grease stains, which always seem total...

New IKEA for the Kitchen: 15 Maybe-Good Things

We have a love/hate relationship with IKEA when it comes to kitchen supplies. (Well, and everything else too, I suppose.) On the one hand, you can find some terrific kitchen tools at low prices. On th...

New Oven Mitts and Pot Holder from BUILT NY

We are fans of BUILT NY's bright, stretchy, and well-made wine totes and lunch bags. We've mentioned their cute lunchbox and their picnic duffel too. Now they're expanding into kitchen tools as well: ...

Linen Aprons: Ten Under $50

We love linen! It's one of the strongest, most durable fabrics, and it grows more beautiful each time you wash it. We have some lovely linen napkins, and we're on the lookout for a good linen apron. H...

Look! Zip & Dry Apron

We love this apron idea from the US-based company Just Perfect, which adds a zip-off towel along the bottom of a regular apron bib. What do you think?...

Survey: Do You Wear an Apron while Cooking?

The idea of an apron might seem rather quaint to some of us, bringing to mind black and white images of women pulling cookies from gleaming new ovens. But for a simple piece of clothing, an apron can ...

Cook's Footwear: What Do You Wear While Cooking?

Fashion and footwear isn't something that comes up very often here at the Kitchn. But with all the winter and holiday cooking in our near future, we thought we'd pay tribute to that which keeps us on ...

Wanting: This Is How I Roll T-shirt (Plus More Good Kitchen Things from Buy Olympia)

Check out this Pie Month-appropriate t-shirt from JennyAnn Wheeler over at BuyOlympia.com. A perfect gift for your pie obsessed sweetie -- it even comes in men's sizes! Read on for more information ...

In Praise of the Humble Potholder

Dear Favorite Potholders, You're so great! You're always there when we need you. You so generously protect our fingers from harm. You wear your burns and stains without complaint. You willingly step ...

Vintage-Inspired Kitchen Goods from Cath Kidston
London

British designer Cath Kidston’s vintage-inspired patterns include kitchen goods like retro aprons, tea towels, oven mitts, paper napkins, tea cosies and more in florals, stripes and woven checks to ...

Vote! More 2008 Candidate Aprons

We already covered the Democratic front runners below - want a Barack or Hillary apron to carry you through tonight's Super Tuesday festivities? Now for the other half. Is Mitt Romney your homeboy? ...

Vote! 2008 Candidate Aprons

Candidates in the kitchen - these aprons are a good way to express your support of the democratic process, or maybe another way to remind your friends to vote. Hillary, on the left, is $17.99 at Caf...

Julia Child Apron

How would you like to have the kitchen goddess Julia Child watching over your cakes and tortes? Check out this limited edition Julia Child Apron. It's a full bib apron with two pockets, and it's han...

Hot or Not: Apron + Built in Oven Mitts

We saw this apron ($25, A+R) at Mighty Goods yesterday and just had to blog it. It's a design that makes it a little easier and safer to do what we do anyway - grab a hot pan with the bottom half of...

Boxwood Design Studio's Linen Apron

I'm not one for collections. I'd rather have one good thing, instead. And here is the one good apron I'd pick. We first saw Boxwood Design Studio's linen apron in the January/February 2006 Saveu...

FoodGoods: T-Shirts for Sassy Foodies

If you're into the t-shirt thing, here's a great way to spread the good word about eating and cooking joyfully. FoodGoods is a local tee-shirt company, located in Tribeca, who print sassy little Ts w...