Cathy King: Super Cool "Private" Chef
Your home is better than a restaurant. You might think it somewhat weird that we'd highlight the services of someone who cooks FOR you in your own home on this site, so let us give you some backgroun...
Your home is better than a restaurant. You might think it somewhat weird that we'd highlight the services of someone who cooks FOR you in your own home on this site, so let us give you some backgroun...
Last month, we posted a profile of the Williamsburg store Mc & Co. One of our favorite products from the store was the Adonde modular ceramics displayed in the window. A product of France, this stunni...
March 18, 2008 I'm a big supporter of new design, young design and smart design. Always have been. There's something about the designer's mindset of always wanting to tinker with things a...
We've been puzzling for months now about how were going to store wine in our new apartment. Floorspace is at a minimum, but we do have some usable wallspace. That said, we didn't want bottles stick...
The night of Day 2 in Copenhagen introduced me to Hansen Living, a minimalist, natural approach to kitchens. Knud Kapper, danish architect and founder of Hansen Living, has designed an eco-friendly ...
January 14, 2008 This morning we woke up thinking about pepper mills. Our favorite of all time - which we use every day - is the Perfex Pepper Mill. This is a kitchen ESSENTIAL. Made for ov...
A lovely hostess/host gift, this beautiful Bay Leaf Wreath is available only from Williams-Sonoma. The wreath can only be purchased online from December 3 through January 18... ...
Love, love, love it. The Sarpaneva Cast Iron Pot by Timo Sarpaneva for Iittala is one of our very favorites......
We first learned of Sweden's glgg, a hot mulled cider drink, when visiting neighboring Finland. The hot drink was served with gingerbread and bleu cheese. The drink is powerful but easy to drink, s...
Classic Kettle. We've spotted Eva Zeisel's teakettle a few times while shopping during the past few weeks. She designed the Eva Kettle for the Chantal Cookware Corporationto celebrate her 100th bir...
As we go through our days, we are constantly on the look out for those items for household living that are just indispensable and make us happy whenever we use them. The most recent one we noticed ...
We've blogged it before out at ATLA: Fuego - Finally Available!, but ID magazine just gave the Fuego Grill special mention in their annual design review. Designed by the hot, hot design company Pent...
Tis' the season. Over at the Kitchen, it's Craigslist grilling, Extreme grilling, and DIY grilling, so we thought we'd start a roundup right here of the top prospects for the outdoor season: Charco...
We just can't wait for warm weather. And this isn't helping. The Eva Solo Table Grill is made for use on the tabletop or as a pick-it-up-by-the-handle-and-take-it-to-the-beach grill on the go. We're...
Name: Katana Series Cutlery Designer: Calphalon Link: Calphalon.com Its stretchmarks are eyecatching and apparently make it a very good knife set. Featured as the Best of Category among consumer p...
A few weeks ago we had a pie at a friend's house and what caught our attention (before the delicious eating part) was the pie plate. Simple, smooth and noticeably attractive we had to ask, "Where did...
This weekend we went to our friend Charles' house in the Berkshires. Among the houseguests was a rather famous food writer, whose work I admire greatly. I was excited to meet her, and also to kick m...
The time has come. Instead of mumbling to ourselves about what we think of Wednesday's Dining In/Dining Out, we're going to start putting our thoughts out there and blogging this great resource. sk...
We would love to think that we'll have the opportunity to go back to Paris a dozen times in our life time. There is too much to imagine exploring in one trip. Making a top-ten list of food experienc...
Charcuterie appetizer at Aux Lyonnais We just returned from Paris. For me, it was a first visit to a city I'd wanted to see for many years: first for romance, and now for another kind of love: tha...
Dept. of Hot & Steamy Memories. This weather reminds me a lot of the week before our wedding: after two straight weeks of frigid rain, the week leading up to our wedding was blazing hot. Rememberin...
It's hot!. Time for more ice cream. Earlier this week I introduced a very mint-y ice cream we made last weekend (recipe here and more recipes at Donvier.com), when I realized I had a mint plant tha...
This weekend when I went out to my garden the mint was going absolutely nuts. I have two varieties - chocolate mint and peppermint. Both are taking over with vigor, so it was already time for a majo...
The Apartment Therapist has been working late for the last few months, and so we've been forced to eat late dinners. When you eat at 9:30, but try to be in bed by 10:30, you have a potential digesti...