The Frigo, by GPOD (Gonçalo Prudêncio Office for Design) is a design experiment geared towards developing an outdoor fridge. Using the the sun as its only energy source, and dirt and plants as its insulation, the Frigo explores alternative ways of …

Wouldn’t it be fitting if your nutritious morning smoothie came with a side of exercise? Well it could, if you had this ingenious food processor designed by Christoph Thetford. Called the Kitchen Machine, the electricity-less appliance uses the phys…

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If you’re on the pro side of the pumpkin pie debate, chances are you have a favorite recipe. Maybe it’s as simple as opening a can of the ready-to-plop-into-crust mix (that goes into a store-bought crust). Or you swear by th…

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These lighter-than-air crispy crackers make their way to my holiday table quite often. They aren't always the same—sometimes I change out…

Just because I am Japanese doesn’t mean that I like all Japanese food. There are quite a few things I don’t really hanker after, and unagi or freshwater eel is one of them. This is due to a very painful, literally gut-wrenching encounter with an un…

If you don’t want to go to all the bother of soaking and cooking them, canned chickpeas work extraordinarily well
- James Beard, Beard on Food

I wanted to go to all the bother of cooking dried chickpeas from scratch. Why? Well, because I never had…

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Editor’s note: On Mondays, Kristen Swensson Sturt of Cheap, Healthy, Good swings by these parts to share healthy and delicious recipes with us. Take it away, Kristen!

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From Benromach to Yoichi, a definitive guide to whisky by one of the industry’s more illustrious tipplers

In his new book “101 Whiskies to Try Before you Die” whisky expert Ian Buxton poses the fun challenge of learning about whisky by drinki…