When: October 7. Doors open 6:30pm, Event begins 7pm
Where: Subculture, 45 Bleecker Street (right by the 6, B, D, F and M trains)
Attending: 170 total tickets available

Join us in New York on Wednesday, October 8, as we get the inside culinary scoop from Kelsey Nixon, Cooking Channel TV personality and author of Kitchen Confidence: Essential Recipes and Tips That Will Help You Cook Anything. Kelsey has had a love of food her entire life and cut her chops as an intern for Martha Stewart and a contestant on The Next Food Network Star. Today she devotes her time to sharing simple ways for everyone to be a chef in their own homes on her show, Kelsey’s Essentials.

Additional presentations include:

• Erin Scott of Yummy Supper
• Ben Pare from The Cocktail Snob

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Recipe: Roasted Beet and Turnip Galette

Happy weekend everyone! I’m off to California to cook up an early Thanksgiving feast that we’ll share with you all in just a few short weeks. It’s busy around here, also getting ready to launch The Kitchn Cookbook (we’re so excited!). We’d love to hear what you’re cooking and working on this weekend too!

• 6 things you should do when starting a food business (or any business!).
• Time to eat oatmeal.
• A really smart spice rack.
• What is pumpkin pie spice, anyway?
• 10 cute snacks for Halloween.

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Q: My CSA box is overflowing with sweet potatoes and there’s just one problem: I really dislike sweet potatoes. I find them to be way too sweet and I usually prefer to use just normal potatoes instead.

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There are many, many ideas out there about what it means to “eat healthy.” It’s easy to go down the rabbit hole and end up totally confounded — believe me, I know from personal experience!

These days, food and I have a much less fraught relationship. While no foods are off-limits, I have a clear sense of what I consider healthy and aim for that. I also support sustainable and ethical agribusiness practices when time and budget permit. Below are five of the books that have helped me figure out my own personal definition of healthy eating.

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Sarah’s Rental Kitchen Makeover

It’s fall, and I’m suddenly inspired to clean out my sink cabinet and reorganize my spices. It’s the time of year when many of us feel reinvigorated to change and improve things, after summer’s long, warm laziness. So I’m curious: what’s the very best thing you ever did for your kitchen? Big to small — from a new dish soap dispenser to a full renovation to a $50 makeover.

What kitchen improvement made life happier for you? Tell us all about it! We’ll round up your answers (send us pictures too, if you’d like!).

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After the autumn equinox comes the rush of recipes with spices and autumn produce. If you’re looking for something quick and fall-inspired this weekend, try the cheater skillet pizza or the pasta with cauliflower and sausage. If you feel like baking, don’t miss out on the chai sweet potato cupcakes (oh boy) and apple fritters. And make delicious leftovers for the week with the help of this easy kale potato gratin.

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This colorful kitchen counter combines three of our very favorite things: IKEA, Legos, and creativity.

The counter was created by two Parisian designers Simon Pillard and Philippe Rosetti in their own kitchen. It took them almost a full week to complete the colorful creation.

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Who needs a rooster? The chicken, or the egg? Neither. Just in case you would like a little brush-up on chicken reproductive systems, here’s a lovely poster that explains just where eggs come from.

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