If there were ever a bakery worth crossing a monumental bridge for, it would be Almondine, in the DUMBO area of Brooklyn. On the first truly warm day in NYC, we decided to brave the tourists and cyclists on the Brooklyn Bridge in the name of the city’s best baguette, as named by New [...]
I’m a bit of a junkie for smart design in the home, so when I saw the radiator mug, I knew I had to have it. I ended up buying it as a gift, but at least I get to see it in use from time to time.
The radiator mug is a porcelain vessel [...]
Dear Santa,
If you know a baker who has been very good this year (and already has the tilting-head KitchenAid mixer), I would suggest gifting him or her with the SideSwipe Blade. This is a tool similar in design to the one that comes with the mixer, but covered in rubbery, downward-angled fingers that reach and sweep the sides of [...]
One of my most-used kitchen tools these days is the dough scraper. Mundane, yes, but also quite useful, and not just for its eponymous purpose. As of late, I’ve been using it to slice brownies or bar cookies in their pans. The user holds the handle on the top of the scraper, using a downward [...]
How cute is this? Maybe not the most essential kitchen tool, but not everything has to be 100% practical. Plus, it’s only $4–a pretty painless treat.
A kitchen scale is not one of those fun accessories to buy, like a bright spatula or pink Kitchenaid mixer or nesting bowls. It has no particular aesthetic value, comes in enough permutations to confuse the average buyer, and is electronic (unless you go for the extremely cheap kind that requires mental math and strange manipulations [...]
