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Tip: Measure Your Cabinets Before You Buy New Dishes

Or, perhaps, measure your existing dishes before you buy cabinets for a new kitchen. We've noticed that, in all of the apartments we've lived in, the standard cabinetry is too shallow for our dinner ...

Food Science: The Best Place to Store Tomatoes...and Why

In our review of Creamy Creamless Tomato Soup last week, we accidentally divulged that we'd been storing our fresh tomatoes in the fridge - a big no-no that many of you were quick to point out! You w...

Thursday Giveaway: OXO Scoop and Store Combo

Giveaway: 3 sets of an OXO Ice Cream Spade and POP 1.5 Small Square Container Find it: POP 1.5 Small Square Container, $9.99 at Amazon; OXO Good Grips Ice Cream Spade, also $9.99 at Amazon Ice Cream ...

Quick Tip: The Best Way to Store Potatoes

Humble, versatile, and economical, potatoes are truly the workhorse vegetable of our kitchen. We also love them because they keep for a very long time and even improve with age. (Unlike certain other ...

Kitchen Tour Favorites: Five Creative Storage Solutions

Our tour yesterday of Biggie's well-organized and bento-optimized kitchen made us think back over some of our favorite creative storage solutions from past kitchen tours. Read on to see our top five.....

Shaker Boxes for Picnics
Seen, noted, and found delicious. 06.17.08

Delicious links - the pretty edition. Here are a few things we're admiring today....

Good Product: Spin N' Stor

When one has a small kitchen, one wants as little clutter as possible. This can be hard to do with so much necessary kitchen equipment, and when we find something that's practical and compact, we jum...

Survey: What's the Best Way to Store Leftovers?

We employ all kinds of methods when wrapping up leftovers. We save take-out containers and re-use them, we ball things up in aluminum foil, and we've been known to stick an entire stock pot half-fille...

Kitchen Spotlight: Holly and Sean's Hot Pink

It's the first day of May and the sun is shining! We're ready to throw open the windows and bring color into the kitchen. For inspiration we turned to a favorite house tour from San Francisco, a tour ...

Reader Tip: Store Greens in Recycled Salad Containers

We liked this tip from reader and Cure-taker RebeccaCT. She says that when she brings fresh greens home from the market, or when they arrive in the CSA box, she cuts off the stems and repacks them in ...

Kitchen Spotlight: The Beauty of Built-In Cabinets

As we work our way into the first-ever 8 Step Kitchen Cure, the first thing to confront us is the sheer amount of bags, packages, jars, shakers, boxes, and packets stuffed into the cupboards. As we po...

Entertaining Tip: Add Height to Buffet Tables With IKEA

It's one of the oldest entertaining tricks in the book - adding height to a display table by sticking shoeboxes or coffee cans under your tablecloth, then setting platters on top of them. The only p...

Weeknight Meal Tip: Pyrex Storage Containers

All right, let's see a show of hands: who's too tired to cook every night of the week? Yup, that's what we thought ... us, too. On the weekends, we like to go to the local farmer's market and loa...

Good Product: Zojirushi Mr. Bento Stainless Lunch Jar

We love brown-bagging our lunch; not only is it more economical and better for our waistlines, but it's also a good way to get rid of last night's leftovers. One of our favorite grown-up lunch boxes ...

Hansen Living Kitchen Furniture from Denmark
Kitchen-related design from our network

It was an easy week to round up kitchen and cooking-related design from our sister home sites; looks like they all wish they were in the kitchen! Here are a few of our top food-related picks, starti...