this would go straight to my best friend's kid - but he's at that age where everything goes *in* something else, so my guess is that he tries to put lion in piggy and piggy in bag.

I just dropped my (self-made) soup bowl on the floor. Crash; alas. I'd be delighted for a new one.

hey, just coveting these. now, coveting more (in chocolatey colors)

the whole kit&caboodle is wonderful, but I'm eyeing the skillet for getting that grill stripe on my veggie burgers.

beautiful and sharp: good combination

Tibetan lentil hits the spot.

grilled comte & grilled tomato sandwiches

ipod and radio...together at last.

hoh boy! winter: collard greens (with a vegetarian spin); summer: slow-cooking tomato sauce

I withdraw my self-nomination and if Laura K's pop wants to write up his experiences with it, I'd choose him.

This year, I began wearing gloves in August. In the house. I get cold, and how. My fingers, my toes, and my tush. And I live with a man who sweats when the windows are kep...

Two small but relevant changes in our house this week: One, my digital camera is newly full. Two, every plug in the house has been unplugged. Common denominat...

don't measure the salt to be added to the soup directly over the soup.

Quick question: any eco-friendly ideas for how to cover the exposed parts of cut fruit and veggies? I'm always using half an orange, part of a tomato, etc., and want to avoid saran wrap to cover th...

That tomato knife intrigues me. I own only sharp-edged knives, although I have heard the knifely philosophy uttered that "serrated beats sharp", hands down. I'd like to test this theo...

As far as I know, the seltzer guy delivers to all boroughs -- since it's a small operation, though, I think it depends on how he can fit a new customer into an existing schedule. Maybe a few people...

In NYC don't forget Walter the Seltzer Man -- he delivers seltzer in those great vintage bottles out of the back of a bread truck. Every week or month (depending on the extent of your seltzer habit...

You can see bats in Central Park or Riverside (and probably all the other Manhattan parks) at dusk, swooping and darting at tree level. You might not interpret what you're seeing as "bats" right aw...

I've stayed at their place as a guest, and it is just as lovely as it looks (plus they have wonderful house dogs, and a great hostess who makes amazing (really amazing) breakfasts). I stayed in the...

As geckotoes1's comment makes clear, an essential part of the question of whether oysters feel pain is what *counts* as pain to begin with. It's fair to say that "response to noxious stimuli" might...