Wooden baguette trays were typically used to hold the loaves as the dough was rising. But stumble across an antique one today and you might think, “Centerpiece!”
Who cooks and eats here: Mallika Basu, her husband, and two young children
Where: London, England
Rent or Own? Own
Entering Mallika Basu’s southwest London home involves a moment of transition, and then surprise. From the entrance, her home looks quite the same as its neighbors in a long row of Clapham townhouses. The front hallway and staircase signal the Victorian heritage of the home, down to the carefully restored tile in the entryway. But walk down the hallway and enter the back room and suddenly the house opens up in a flood of light, sleek modern cabinetry, and a wall of windows to the outdoors. It’s a beautiful surprise.
This is where Mallika Basu — cookbook author, public relations executive, and mother of two young children — cooks. Come take a closer look!
Silverware is intended to help you eat. It helps you raise food from a bowl or plate in a civilized way and place that substance in your mouth. When it goes beyond the call of duty to, say, help you spin spaghetti or tell you you’re eating too fast, well that’s just not OK.
Here are ten pieces of silverware that need to be told, gently, that at the table it’s better to be seen, not heard.
Whether they’re retrofitting old homes with eco-modern touches or going net-zero in the sleekest way ever, our readers know that tech and green are a perfect design marriage. Together, they make an unstoppable combo of nature and science that helps great-looking homes look and work better. Here are a few of our favorite power couples from House Tours and House Calls past.
In Hitchcock’s lush thriller, To Catch a Thief (1955), a cliff-side picnic lunch gets served up with equal measures of innuendo, elegance, and cheek. Have you seen this film? If not, you must.
Ever since I was a little girl, sipping on Pelican Punch with milk and honey, I’ve been a tea-drinker. I consume plenty of coffee and other hot beverages too, but tea is my comfort drink, and I have quite a stash. What you see above is a fraction of the whole (I’ve recently instituted a strict one-in, one-out policy for my tea collection). What about you? What kind of tea do you drink, or are you an equal opportunist?
Also, we’re going to be writing about tea more frequently this year at The Kitchn — is there anything in particular you’d like to learn or talk about?
A rich and satisfying after-dinner drink blended from vodka, coffee liqueur, and light cream, the White Russian could almost be said to have it all. A one-stop source of alcohol, sugar, caffeine, and milk fat, the only legal substance it lacks is nicotine.
The Coen brothers’ cult comedy classic, The Big Lebowski (1998), is a trippy, California-noir, loosely inspired by The Big Sleep (1946). But here, in the place of a hard-boiled, hard-drinking detective, we find the bowling-obsessed, bathrobe-wearing slacker, Jeffrey “the Dude” Lebowski (Jeff Bridges), who slurps down White Russians instead of rye.
I love a little crunch in my tuna salad. I also am not the biggest fan of mayonnaise; I like a dab but no more. Here’s a tuna salad in that spirit — fresh, crisp, and light, with more vegetables than tuna in the mix.
We’ve all know and understand that we’re not supposed to cry over spilled milk and yet sometimes we do because sometimes spilled milk sucks, or it’s the last straw in a series of challenges and difficulties that day. Or because we really wanted that milk and now it’s gone. It’s easy to say ‘don’t cry, just take a breath and let it go,’ but it’s often much harder to actually do it, especially when we’re so caught up in the situation that it’s too late for deep breaths and mindful pauses.
Happy Super Bowl weekend, friends! Popular posts this week on The Kitchn include recipes for garlicky roasted broccoli and a kale and quinoa salad, 15 money-saving ways to outsmart your supermarket, the cheapest way to make a pour spout for a mason jar, and a post on how to apply for one of the many positions we’re hiring for! Enjoy.
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