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We’ve always thought that of all the cool kitchen utensils, the rolling pin must be the most versatile. Not only does it serve the obvious purpose of rolling out dough, but, in the eventuality that, like Steven Segal in Under Siege, we were tapped to serve as a secret agent, it would prove a very [...]

‘Tis the season to be grilling, and the biggest grill-fest of them all (July 4) is just a couple weeks away, so it’s not too soon to start thinking about supplies and equipment for that delicious day.
And though it’s still too early to shop for the stuff you’ll be grilling (whether veggie or meat), you [...]

Yesterday an amazing story in the New York Times about the growing cook-off trend in the city got us really hungry. Passionate home cooks, event planners, bloggers and a few professional foodies have generated a bonafide cook-off community in New York, which comes together fairly regularly around events like tofu, cupcakes, risotto, cassoulet, fondue, pork, [...]

We’ve come a long way from the days when the only produce we took the time to buy organic was rasberries. Still, you can’t pay for organic fruit and veg with listicles (one day!), so every trip to the grocery store culminates in a heated town hall-like meeting where every member on the produce aisle [...]

The other day we bought red peppers at the grocery store for the first time in four years. Seriously, they’ve cost $8.99 per pound for ages now, but last week they were suddenly $3.99, the same price as their less tasty green, yellow and orange cousins. We got really excited and wondered: “Maybe the days [...]

A while ago we alerted you, dear readers, to knowledge that already lay waiting deep in your subconscious: the buildings we inhabit, vehicles we travel in and weapons we fight with are loaded with repressed sexual symbolism.
Well, as you’ve likely noticed the visual punditry can be extended to foods. Yes, many have made dirty jokes [...]

Last year one of our favorite mall visit time-wasters, The Sharper Image, filed for bankruptcy and closed all its stores. We were crushed by the loss of all those useless, cheap-feeling gadgets we loved to play with but never bought (hence the bankruptcy).  Fortunately, we read yesterday in The New York Times of the company’s [...]

This week the news (at least the really important news) has been all about animals getting jobs once performed by humans. First we learned about service dogs that fetch their owners water and do their laundry, then we read that the city of Mesa, Arizona had laid off its lawnmower operators and hired goats to [...]

Though it took us a long time to understand that citrus fruits are meant to be peeled – those were some dark years of intense Vitamin C deficiency – we’ve since found ourselves surrounded by discarded peels after many a clementine binge. What to do with all those pretty peels?
We tried breeding new hybrid species [...]

You’re really pushing it, you know? If it wasn’t for Listicles’ weekly list of lists that we didn’t get to make lists about, your partner would leave you, your kids would run away, your parents would kick you out and the cousin you find kind of hot even though you know you’re not supposed to [...]