Do you like to keep something pretty on your table while serving weeknight meals? How about during dinner parties? Do you break out fresh flowers and candles? Or do you keep it simple, letting the foo...
A friend of mine went to Japan this past Spring with his girlfriend, and popped the question to her while there. They were in Japan during the cherry blossom viewings, and I can't think of anywhere m...
I grew up in Georgia, where it was common to see groves of trees and even utility poles and barnhouses covered with kudzu, the "vine that ate the South." What few people know is that the plant is edib...
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 ...
The New York City farmers' markets are still peeking out from under the blanket of winter. Ramps have arrived, but there's not much else in the way of exciting produce. There are, however, plenty of f...
We just saw these photos at Martha Stewart, and they reminded us of this post last year where Chris used his cute egg cup collection as decoration for his Easter table. He put egg-shaped candles in...
Right now, it's raining outside that dirty kitchen window of ours. Even more reason to have a vase of flowers on the counter. Daisies are inexpensive and humble, but clustered together, they look pret...
Back in October, during National Fair Trade Month, Emily highlighted several foods where fair trade policies—which require sustainable farming and just labor practices for the workers—make a bi...
This morning we wrote about President Obama's favorite tea, which actually comes pre-made in a bottle rather than loose in a tin. But if you do buy tea bags or leaves that come in pretty tins, this is...
Why is it that the kitchen is often the last place in a home that is made beautiful and comfortable? It's where everyone wants to congregate, but the floors are left bare and the walls unadorned. The ...
At the farmer's markets in San Francisco right now, we're seeing a lot of the salad vendors selling edible flowers mixed in the salad bags. Edible flowers are not only colorful and pretty to look at,...
For those of us in chillier parts of the country, and that's at least half of our readership, we have been stuck in the deep depressing cave of winter, sans fresh local produce, or local flowers, for ...
Like spring, crème de violette is now making a gentle, welcome return. ...
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