Come Hear Kelsey Nixon Explain How to Be a Rockstar in the Kitchen at Our October Maker Talk — Maker Talks

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Maker Talks

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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What’s Cooking This Weekend? — Weekend of September 27-28, 2014

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!

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5 Books To Help You Decide What Healthy Eating Means to You — Essential Cookbooks

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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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What’s the Best Improvement You Ever Made to Your Kitchen? — Reader Intelligence Request

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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