I am an old-timer, mostly Sabatier carbon steel for chef and boning knives and also Wusthof Professional with the old wooden handles. Some Forschner specialty knives. If I were to start my collection now and I could afford them,...

, some, even, organic. They don’t find them in their own lunchbox very often because I like the notion of going with the rhythm of the season — and also I hate the ordeal of going to retail stores, even the CoOp! But...

, wanting any manner of fruits and vegetables out of season, some, even, organic. They don’t find them in their own lunchbox very often because I like the notion of going with the rhythm of the season — and also I...

I feel your pain. We are in the same boat. My 7 year old likes to take hot dog in roll, wrapped in foil. I make it in the morning, shove it in lunchbox next to cold pack. ketchup packets swiped from fast food places work well...

're more for show than actual use. This is where individual salt dips next to each place setting filled with kosher salt would work. I used to collect various shapes of cut glass salt dips, and still have a few left. I prefer...

I especially like the scene in Eat Man Drink Woman where the grandpa cooks a little gourmet lunchbox for his granddaughter to eat at school. Penelope Cruz in Volver making the special Spanish dinner for the construction workers...

Didn’t Alton look into this, by collecting the pasta water and letting the remaining oil rise to the top? My recollection is that most of the oil remained in the pasta water, but there was some evidence that it did reduce...

Here in the Midwest, kids seem to like everything. We have chocolate (mini 3 musketeers, snickers), tootsie pops, blow pops, dots...just don’t give fruit snacks or pretzels or lunch-box type treats. We put it in a big bowl...

.olive oil producers are going to be super in a decade or so) with time and many on site visits I have developed a collection of producers whose oil can be used confidently (not as a substitute)in leiu for any oil presently using...

I just sent my five year old grandson a Batman lunchbox packed full of all these kinds of candies so he could taste the stuff that Grandma used to eat. “Grandma, you should have sent me a Thomas the Train toy.”

refrigerator’s placement required a certain parking spot). As I mentioned previously, I purchase wine as I need it; however, I collect fromage, so I preferred a special spot for it opposed to a trendy wine cellar cooler...

(ends up being about $8.33 per day) but makes it difficult to build up a good spice collection, for instance, or to splurge on any higher-end ingredients. Keeping healthy, nutritious meals on the table (3 per day) on that budget...

For offbeat, look up this link (it’s to the Traveller’s Lunchbox blog recipe archive): http://www.travelerslunchbox.com/journal/2005/11/27/imbbshf-cookie-swap-around-the-world-in-four-cookies.html She lists 4 cookies...

usually involved trying to eat X number of items (donuts, Big Macs, etc.) w/in a certain time period. A collection would be taken up (usually quite lucrative) to be given to the successful, but invariably sick, winner.

listen to great muisic a lot (my husband has a great stereo system and an enormous collection of vinyl records) while we cook and eat. We have friends over to eat with us. Our young child loves good food, too, well beyond mac and...