Stealing Bar Glasses

How bad is it to pilfer pints? (By Helena Echlin)

Cheap and Beautiful

High-impact tableware on a low-impact budget. (By Michele Foley)

New Finds: Candy-Colored Colanders

Easy on your wallet and the Earth. (By Lessley Anderson)

DIY Kitchen Fixes

Five practical fixes to save space and beautify your kitchen. (By Lessley Anderson, Michele Foley, Chris Rochelle, and Eric Slatkin)

Key to the Liquor Cabinet

How to create the ultimate home bar. (By CHOW staff)

Building the Ultimate Green Kitchen

CHOW’s ecoconscious remodel guide. (By Michele Foley)

The Swedes love Daim cake. It’s made from an almondy biscuit batter that yields a thin cake. The cake is covered with chopped pieces of Daim candy (similar to Heath bars) and milk chocolate. It’s very sweet and rich. (By C. Thi Nguyen)

How to turn any shopping trip into an excuse for food-buying. (By Miriam Wolf)

A DIY kitchen that comes with the chef. (By Eric Slatkin)

Muji’s coming to America. (By Meredith Arthur)

Try McVitie’s, Anna’s. (By Sarah Perry)

Stovetop espresso pots have many chowhound fans, who say that though they don’t produce the crema that a pricey machine does, they definitely make delicious, rich-tasting espresso. (By Caitlin McGrath)

Food writer Andrea Strong raises two excellent and underconsidered big-think dining questions in her weekly column, “The Strong Buzz.” (By James Norton)

The iconic company files for bankruptcy protection on the heels of Royal Worcester and Spode’s filings. (By Roxanne Webber)

Could Red Hook get any more hyped? As if a Fairway with a view and a burgeoning IKEA weren’t enough to bring the yupsters, the divey taverns of Van Brunt street now have a brand-new neighbor, Tini, an Italian-inspired wine... (By Stephanie Rosenbaum)