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Why are these called breakfast nooks? Sure, sipping coffee and enjoying toast while reading the paper in the morning light seems the fitting activity in one of these smallish spaces. But we’re sure the owners of these homes tuck in to meatloaf there, too. Either way, we love nooks. The nearer they’re nestled to the kitchen, the better.By the standards of some apartment dwellers, some of these nooks could classify as dining rooms.

One of the most moving food reads I’ve encountered recently had little to do with recipes, but much to do with how food is a stand-in for compassion and empathy. Larry Lake writes about how, when his wife had cancer, everyone brought casseroles. When his daughter had mental health crises? Not so much. It’s a beautifully written piece and it highlights the way that overt crises bring out the gifts of food and meals, but more tense and less easily resolved moments do not.

As if vacationing in the French countryside wasn’t already swoon-worthy enough, the coolest accommodations a home cook could ever ask for just hit the Airbnb market: Julia Child’s Provencal home, La Peetch! I tend to avoid my hotel when I travel, but this discovery might change things. Can you imagine how cool it would be to cook in what was once Julia’s kitchen?

What you see above is not a bean bag chair or a sleeping bag. No, it’s actually a slow cooker. You might have even seen it around this last year or so as it gained momentum in the media. Designed by South Africa-based entrepreneur Sarah Collins, the mission behind the Wonderbag is to empower women in Africa. For every Wonderbag that you buy, another is donated to a women in Africa who needs help feeding her family.

I’ve been sneaking peeks at several celebrity kitchens lately. From Beyonce to Katy Perry, they’ve been totally over the top (in a good way). This time around I’m checking out Rachael Ray’s up-for-sale Hamptons home. The asking price is $4.69 million and it has not one, but two kitchens! But before you start packing your bags, you may want to look closer. Do you see what I see? This kitchen from the 30-Minute Meal maven herself is light, bright, and open.

If you’ve been following Mandy Moore’s Instagram for some time, then you know she’s in the process of moving into a new home with her fiancé, Taylor Goldsmith. For the last few months she’s been posting consistent updates on how the renovations are coming along, including what she’s been planning for her kitchen. She recently posted the end result of her pantry, and it’s absolutely stunning and massive and will make you extremely jealous.

When I was growing up, my mother kept vases of fresh flowers all over the house. There were flowers on the kitchen and dining room tables, in the entryway, and stationed in all the windows. She even kept some in the bathroom. Unfortunately, her flower skills did not rub off on me. (I’d say it skipped a generation, but my sister’s house has more flowers than a royal wedding, so I think it just skipped me.) My flower ineptitude is not for lack of trying, either.

I love to rearrange things — my collection of cookbooks (which I have made many attempts to organize by color instead of by type of cuisine), the jumble of black boots in the back of my closet, even all the tiny hand lotions from hotel bathrooms I’ve accumulated over the years. So when I saw that Busy Philipps (of Freaks and Geeks fame and best friend to Michelle Williams) had posted a picture of her newly reorganized pantry on Instagram, I felt a tingle of excitement.

It’s easy to look through Pinterest and label yourself as uninspired, not crafty, or a total failure (no, just me?). Let’s take gorgeous dining table settings as an example. How many times have you seen some crafty, chic thing that some blogger created for their Thanksgiving table? How many times have you seen a beautiful place setting that you know must have cost your entire paycheck and then some? Well, I’m here to tell you it doesn’t need to be like that.

Those who are participating in The Kitchen Cure know that Week Three’s Assignment has you stocking the kitchen. This is a nice opportunity to stream-line your cabinets by replacing some of that ugly, clunky packaging with jars.I love storing our food this way because I get a good seal and I can see what’s inside.

Even if you don’t know what masa harina is, you’ve almost certainly eaten it. This is the flour used to make corn tortillas and the filling for tamales. Pupusas, arepas, and sopes are all made with it, along with plenty of other favorite dishes. Masa harina is as central to the Mexican and South American pantry as chiles and dried beans. Do you ever cook with it?Masa harina is more than plain corn flour. Before being ground, the corn kernels for masa harina are soaked with limewater.

The pickle has long had a special place on the Christmas tree. Take the cool cuke’s lead and check out these other food-themed ornaments for your tree! Fig Ornament, Sur la Table, $4.86 Grilled Cheese Sandwich Glass Ornament, Bronner’s, $8.99 Onion Purple Glass Ornament, Bronner’s, $14.99 Short Stack of Pancakes, ChristmasOrnaments.com, $13.99 Mostaccioli Christmas Ornament, OrnamentShop.com, $13.

Just in time for the holidays, Amazon has cut prices on some Thanksgiving essentials at Whole Foods Market. That’s right — you can get the good stuff and pay less for it! Also, if you’re an Amazon Prime member, you get a larger discount on turkey too. Have you tackled your holiday shopping yet for your Thanksgiving feast? If you have, job well done! If you’re a procrastinator, like me, Whole Foods Market might be a good place to stop.

Gift guides are my favorite part of the holidays. Sure, the holidays are about family and togetherness and all that good stuff, but they’re also about finding out that Oprah thinks we should buy $50 blueberries this year, and that the Neiman Marcus will sell you your own personal brand of Champagne for $150,000. I wait all year for the annual gift guides to start coming out, and Goop’s is one of the best.

An Amazon Echo can do a lot of things. It can play music, brew coffee, order pizza, and even help you find better deals on Amazon shopping holidays. It can definitely make a person feel a little like Big Brother is watching them, however. Amazon Echo is always listening, and that makes some people a little uncomfortable about privacy issues. Nobody wants to think their speakers are spying on them.

Holiday shopping is well underway. Have you made your list of things to buy for loved ones yet? Some people are harder to shop for than others. While you might know your mom loves classic cookware and your sister loves getting geeky with new ingredients, what do you buy for the best friend who has it all? Or the fabulous uncle who has very particular taste? You might think a sparkly french fry bag made entirely of crystals seems like the ideal gift, but I’m here to tell you it’s not.

The Instant Pot has become something of a revolution. When it first appeared on the scene, it had all the hallmarks of a trendy kitchen gadget that we’d all want for a year, then use a few times and forget about for the rest of our lives, like the Juiceman juicer or the George Foreman grill in the 1990s. But the Instant Pot has been getting more and more popular every year.

If you’ve ever been tempted to wrap up a package of Oreos, slap it with a sparkly bow, and call it a holiday present for the biggest chocolate sandwich cookie lover in your life, this year that’s finally socially acceptable. The omniscient powers that be at Mondelez have concocted a new (very special) package of Oreos meant to give as a gift. Presenting … the Oreo Music Box! As you can see, this is not your average package of Oreos.

There are so many places in your kitchen that you need to clean (or, in the case of sponges) replace regularly, like your cutting boards and sink. But as it turns out, there’s more to be afraid of than germs in your kitchen. As a man in Florida recently discovered, your fridge can actually explode. He happened to be home when he heard the explosion from the kitchen.

Every host wants a party to go well and for their guests to be happy and entertained, but there’s nothing more awkward than when the guests are so happy and comfortable that they forget to go home. The poor host is left trying to figure out a charming and tactful way to get their guests to go home without having the evening end on an awkward note. I’m so sleepy! How are you still here? Please leave!

Today I discovered something shocking: Reddit is an excellent place to go for cleaning tips. The site is best known for dog memes and jokes, but it’s also full of a lot of actually useful information. The massive online discussion forum has over a million sub-forums covering everything from video games to food to random thoughts people have in the shower. And with that many people around, a lot of them are bound to know what they’re talking about.

When I think 30 years into the future, I’m hoping for things like bras without underwire that don’t suck and self-healing knives that never need sharpening! My groceries will obviously be delivered by drone and my laundry will automatically sort and fold itself. Okay, so my vision is probably more dream than reality. (Or maybe not? Washington Post predicts drone-delivered kale may be part of the crazy Amazon-0wned Whole Foods new world.

Lately I just can’t seem to get enough of celebrity homes — or more specifically, celebrity kitchens. First there was Beyoncé, and then there was Mary Berry. Is it because they’re celebrities? No, I mean, that’s a fun bonus, but really it’s because my own kitchen is in the middle of a remodel and I don’t want to leave anything awesome out so I keep peeking at other folks’ digs.

Experiencing food is a multi-sensory affair. It’s not just about taste and flavor profile, you know. Equally important are aroma, visual aesthetic, and the auditory experience. If you’re skeptical on the latter, then know that there’s an entire world for individuals with Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (or ASMR) who enjoy specific food sounds, and there are tons of videos to prove it.

Kitchen sponges are notorious for being bacteria-ridden. By some estimates, they are dirtier than toilet seats. Strains of germs range from campylobacter, salmonella, and staphylococcus to E. coli and listeria. Yuck. “That thing is very dirty,” Philip Tierno, a microbiologist and pathologist at the New York University School of Medicine, tells Tech Insider.

Michelle Obama’s platform as First Lady was to get America to eat better. Her childhood obesity campaign entailed an array of projects from school nutrition reform to a cultivating a garden at the White House. Much has been speculated about the fate of the latter — the 2,800-square-foot vegetable garden located on the South Lawn — under a Trump presidency.

If part of the reason you love getting your morning latte is flirting with the cute barista, your life could be getting a little more boring, thanks to Gordon, the robot barista arm of the future, reports Cnet. Gordon works at San Francisco’s Cafe X, and although he’s just an arm he can operate two professional-grade coffee machines to offer everything from a cup of joe to a shot of espresso.

Although you were probably taught as a child to be wary of talking to strangers, a dinner party organization in Perth, Australia wants you to throw caution to the wind and embrace the unknown. Stranger Danger Dinners wants to help you meet potential friends over a plate of delicious food.

No one actually tries to waste food, but sometimes things just get forgotten. Maybe that bag of grapes got buried under your salad greens and became slimy before you could get to it (ahem, guilty). Or perhaps that lunch you packed for work was shelved in favor of going out for lunch with your coworkers (also guilty). While it’s definitely a bummer to throw your hard-earned cash into the trash, the implications of food waste are so much worse than the money aspect.

You’re probably familiar with new dinner trends: kale everywhere; grains everywhere; red meat approximately nowhere. But how well do you know the dinner trends of the generations that came before you? This short video by Mode Studios starts in 1915 with roast beef and potatoes, and ends in 2015 with a dish that is — no surprise — significantly greener. How does their selection line up with your memories of food over the years?

If you like to cook (and we’re guessing you do, based on the fact that you’re currently reading The Kitchn), you’ve probably had at least a fleeting fantasy about saying goodbye to your day job and trying your hand at being a private or personal chef. One former restaurant chef who opted for the private chef life shares what the job entails in this Serious Eats essay. Here are a few of the things we learned. You get to play around with menus and cuisines.

There’s always a new tech gadget to shake our heads at these days, but thankfully for the most part they steer clear of the kitchen. However, the latest marketing gimmick from the folks behind Cinnamon Toast Crunch, of all places, combines the much-maligned selfie stick with the humble spoon. While there’s nothing revolutionary in terms of the design (it’s more like a product mashup) it still caused a stir on the Internet this week. One of the editors at Yahoo!

Our Kitchn Cure starts Monday September 7. Join us for a 20-day journey towards a cleaner, happier, more mindful kitchen. Get all the details here! This year’s Cure is led by Dana Velden, the author of our Weekend Meditations column, and of the new book, Finding Yourself in the Kitchen: Kitchen Meditations and Inspired Recipes from a Mindful Cook.

California residents, including chefs, have to get creative with their water conservation efforts. While most restaurants have switched to only serving water if a diner asks for it, the chef at a restaurant in the Big Sur area has tackled the water issues with another, even more creative approach. Instead of using water for the initial rinse of the dishes to remove food, Chef John Cox of the Post Ranch Inn in Big Sur has started using an air compressor as a first step.

From Apartment Therapy → Take a Visual Tour of IKEA Through the Decades In June, I traveled to Sweden with IKEA for their Democratic Design Days.

Not since a roommate in college had a rice maker have I played around with one. If I remember correctly, that one singed the bottom layer of rice and then broke before Thanksgiving break.Not much of a gadget-cook myself, I usually avoid appliances like these. But I’ve been playing around with Zojirushi’s latest model, the Rizo, and recently took their suggestion in the instruction manual to make risotto using the machine’s intriguing risotto setting.