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Jean Greenfield's Kitchen And Garden In San Anselmo

Jean Greenfield's husband did most of the major work on her beautiful vintage-inspired kitchen in her Arts & Crafts-style San Anselmo home. Jean is no stranger to the food industry; she has work...

Flickr Find: Repurposed Atomic Egg Beater Clock

We were digging through our own kitchen junk drawers and found several sets of old hand mixer beaters. We'd been saving them to turn into a funky chandelier, but those plans will have to wait, becau...

Do You Cook From Vintage Cookbooks?

When I was a kid, I used to read all my mom's Gourmet magazines and flip through her collection of Time Life Foods of the World. The photographs of food and faraway places lit up something inside me ...

5 Favorite Old-Fashioned Kitchen Gadgets

We've talked about useless gadgets and useful ones, but these mostly recent tools didn't include some of our real favorite kitchen gadgets. Ingenious kitchen devices have been around for hundreds of...

Kitchen Spotlight: Jeff and Martha's Restored Vintage

When we talk about kitchen renovations and remodels, we are usually looking at kitchens that have been modernized or brought up to date. Well, this kitchen is an exception: it went both forward and ...

Vintage Kitchen Fittings: The Hoosier Cabinet

Did you grow up with a Hoosier cabinet in your home? We did, and we still have a lot of affection for this old-fashioned predecessor to built-in kitchen cabinets. Click through to read a little more a...

Look! Enormous Vintage Collection of Spice Jars

Roya wrote to us looking for help in selling her grandmother's vintage spice jar collection. We were so fascinated by this enormous collection of vintage spice jars we had to show them to all of you. ...

Inspiration: Better Homes & Gardens Barbecue

Remember our hot dog buffet post from last week? The graphic from that post came from our new favorite cookbook, The Better Homes & Gardens Barbecue Book. The pages are full of outdoor cooking "te...

Good Question: June Cleaver Party Foods From the 1950s?

Here's a fun question from Kristin. She writes: I'm hosting a book club meeting for 10 at my teeny-tiny apartment and since we're reading a novel that takes place in 1955, I thought I'd whip up a bunc...

Dessert on the Go: Vintage Cake Carriers

For family meals and holidays, my grandma would often bring a dessert, along with her relish tray. It would always come in a large Regal Ware aluminum cake carrier, making whatever was inside even mor...

Good Question: What Is This Stringed Gadget?

Here's a request for help from Karen, Christina, and Kristen — what is this gadget? Dear Kitchen connoisseurs, We found this in our kitchen. What is it used for? We used it to zest a lemon (and ...

Vintage and Repurposed Cake Plates from Style Garden

Given our focus on beef this week (and my personal thing for cake plates) I couldn't help but show you this cake stand from Style Garden. ...

Ten Things I Love: Gear from Nora M.'s Home Bar
Straight Up Cocktails and Spirits

Inspired by Sara Kate's Ten Things I Love From My Mother's Kitchen post last week - and all the fabulous reader submissions that have followed it - for this week's column, I've put together a list of ...

Omnivore Books on Food
San Francisco

Omnivore Books on Food is a new bookstore in San Francisco. Housed in a former butcher shop in Noe Valley, they specialize in books about food, particularly vintage and hard-to-find books....

Store Review: Cookin'
San Francisco

We went to this store on a recent trip to San Francisco, led by a friend who knew we'd get lost in it. True, we could have stayed and browsed for hours in this dimly lit (excuse the grainy photographs...

Web Resource: Vintage Cookbook

Have you ever wanted to find a cookbook from your grandmother's or great-grandmother's generation? Or maybe a cookbook that's out of print, from a restaurant long gone, or from a cultural generation ...

Kitchen Spotlight: San Francisco Sleek Yet Vintage Re-Do

Wowzers - we have quite a kitchen renovation to show you today! It's from a recent San Francisco house tour, and AT:SF editor Leslie thought you might enjoy seeing it. We agreed, so take a look at Reb...

Vintage Porcelain Spoon Holders

Have you ever seen anything like these porcelain spoon holders? We're semi-obsessed with these obscure pieces of formal dinnerware. They were designed to keep spoons for a buffet or coffee station ele...

Paris Flea Market Kitchen Finds

For anyone with an interest in cooking, a trip to the Paris brocantes -- roving antique fairs that set up shop around Paris in every season but summer -- is a lesson in kitchen nostalgia. From vintage...

London's Portobello Market Kitchen Finds

The outdoor stalls of London's Portobello Road market have a wealth of tea-related paraphernalia, from toast caddies to tea cups in a riot of English patterns. But if you wind your way into the indoo...

NYC: Kitchen Shopping and Delicious Eats at the Brooklyn Flea

This weekend marked the debut of the Brooklyn Flea, purported to be NYC's largest outdoor market selling new and vintage furniture, artwork, clothing, and jewelry. For cooks, this meant loads of cute ...

Vintage Better Homes and Gardens Cookbook
eBay Scavenger

It's the month of The Hungry Reader, so here's a 1945 vintage copy of the Better Homes and Gardens cookbook from eBay - we love the font and typography on these old versions, as well as the recipes. (...

Reed and Barton Silverplate Dimension Tea and Coffee Set
eBay Scavenger

Our post below on Anthropologie's newest teapots got us interested in antique tea-things on eBay. This incredible Reed & Barton Dimension tea and coffee set dates to 1961 and was purchased from...

Table Toppers: Crystal Knife Rests

No, it's not a barbell for mice, or a posh paperweight. No well-dressed dinner table is complete without a knife rest. Your grandmother knew how to protect the antique ecru lace tablecloth from ro...

eBay Scavenger: Vintage Fortune Cookie Maker

This is coming a little late for Lunar New Year but we couldn't pass up this vintage Fortune Cookie Maker. The incredibly retro box really had us going; was this for real? It's currently going for $...

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