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iPhone App: Pastatime

When we included pasta measuring tools on our list of 10 Most Useless Kitchen Gadgets, many of you chimed in that you actually find them helpful. Well, if you own an iPhone, here's a tool that allows ...

FoodPairing: What Fits Well With...

Have you ever thought of pairing pumpkin with strawberry? How about soy sauce with cranberry or broccoli with milk chocolate? Would you substitute Gruyère and coconut for butter? A Belgian Web ...

iPhone Apps For The Home Cook: Part IV

Wow, even more iPhone/iPod Touch apps for the home cook! There are farmer's market and local food finders and videos from a popular food personality! There's also a comprehensive cheese guide and a li...

OS X Dashboard Widgets For the Home Cook

I've rounded up a collection of useful widgets for the home cook that uses a Mac. From measurement conversions to reminders, you're sure to find these useful. Best of all, they are free!...

Three New iPhone Apps For the Home Cook

I found three new iPhone/iPod apps that I thought home cooks might find useful! From a bar code scanner that counts your calories for you, to a time management tool that organizes your meal planning ...

Too Many Zucchini? Swap Them Away Via VeggieTrader

Are you awash in pole beans, with nary a ripe tomato? Or perhaps you have a bumper crop of tomatoes and no zucchini this year. What if you could find a fellow gardener nearby who wanted to swap you so...

New Site for Foodies: Tasty Kitchen from Pioneer Woman

Look out, everyone, there's a new group food site on the scene! It's called Tasty Kitchen and the gal behind the scenes is none other than Ree of Pioneer Woman. Have any of you spent time on the site ...

Kitchen Tech: Organize Recipes Using Google Reader

We follow a lot of food blogs (too many probably!) and we're constantly coming across great new recipes and ideas we want to try. We've used Google Reader to siphon all those blog feeds into one place...

More iPhone Apps for the Home Cook

Awhile back, we posted about iPhone apps for the home cook. Well, it's almost a year later, and the app market has grown by leaps and bounds, so we thought we'd round up some more fun and useful cooki...

What's This Herb? Use Flickr for Garden Reference

Last week I found a tall, fragrant plant growing in a weedy corner of my little yard. It looked like lemon balm, an herb that has a sweet lemon aroma and makes a really wonderful herbal tea. But was i...

Good Reading: Sunset's One Block Diet Blog
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One of our very favorite blog reads lately has been Sunset's One Block Diet. The premise is simple: the magazine is based in Northern California, where "locavorism" is just a way of life. But the edit...

What We're Reading: The Atlantic's Food Channel

Last month, the magazine The Atlantic launched a comprehensive food section on its website. They're covering everything from food politics to home cooking, with big name writers like Bill Niman and Ar...

Unique Dessert: Quince and Fig Cobbler from Top Chef Stephanie Izard

We were big fans of Stephanie Izard during Top Chef Chicago, and since her big win, she's been busy planning a new restaurant and making appearances all over the country. She's also been blogging, and...

Wallet Card: How To Safely Store and Defrost Beef

Have you ever wondered how long you could store different cuts of beef in the freezer or in the fridge? You might find this downloadable card from The Beef Checkoff and the Cattlemen's Beef Board very...

Super Natural Recipe Search

Looking for more recipe inspiration? Take a look at this custom recipe search from Heidi Swanson of 101 Cookbooks and Super Natural Cooking. It's called the Super Natural Recipe Search, and here's wha...

Check It Out! Full Episodes of Food Network Shows Online

It looks like we spoke too soon when we said major networks weren't posting food shows online! Given all the time we spend looking up recipes on their website, you think we'd have noticed that the Foo...

The Kitchn Is Now on Facebook

Are you on Facebook? Would you like to follow The Kitchn there? If so, check out our new page on Facebook. You can follow updates, share links, and post your own photos and videos of recipes from The ...

Meal Planning Tool: Springpad

Springpad is an online note-keeping system designed to keep you more organized, and it has a special section just for planning weekly meals and groceries. Check it out... ...

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...

Eat More Vegetables: The Nature Matching Screensaver

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...

Look! Kitchen Design Inspiration from The Kitchen Vote

An easily digestible source of eye-candy for kitchen design junkies is not always easy to find on the desktop. Enter The Kitchen Vote, a website dedicated entirely to thumbsing up or down on "a dail...

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...

Cook's Resource: WiseGeek's Food and Cooking Site

While researching blackstrap molasses the other day, we came across an informative and well-written article on the WiseGeek website. Curious, we decided to see what else the site had to offer...and pr...

New Web Resource: Cookstr

There's a new game in town. And we think it may give Epicurious and Food Network a run for their money. And what's that? These guys are missing an "e" in their name? Funny, we here at The Kitchn could...

Wallet Guide to Ocean-Friendly Sushi

Having a sushi-making party? Blue Ocean Institute, the folks who bring you one of the most useful and frequently updated wallet seafood guides, now has a pocket guide to ocean-friendly sushi that you ...