are happy to give anyone the pallets – just to get rid of them. When you get your pallets, just nail the sides together and you will have your very own environmentally friendly compost bin. Since I have a lot of kitchen... (28 replies, last updated by Sal Vanilla June 24, 2009)

Cambridge, MA is running a trial of providing household containers for food scraps that residents can bring to a recycling site to be composted. Some restaurant and health food stores are participating in the program for... (19 replies, last updated by lgss March 18, 2008)

Now that I have a real kitchen, I want to try making my own chicken stock. I’ve been saving chicken parts, onion scraps, etc. in the freezer, but was wondering if I could also use fennel scraps (the leaves and the stalks on... (5 replies, last updated by Carb Lover October 20, 2005)

. Nearly all fruit and vegetable scraps go in, but I put really big stuff like corn husks and most of the apple cores when I make applesauce in the city composting can. A small bucket on the kitchen counter holds coffee grounds,... (24 replies, last updated by michael b November 1, 2005)

Perhaps also the new,flexible edge paddle,beater.It does almost all of the bowl scrapping. (1 reply, last updated by lcool September 7, 2008)

wondering about the food. any recent visits? also, any thoughts on angelica kitchen for a larger group (8 or so?). I’m the only person eating really healthy but I want all my friends to join me; will there still be good... (3 replies, last updated by taylorson May 5, 2008)

Having posted a dozen sharply negative messages on the state of Italian cuisine in Minneapolis over the last few months, let me say something positive for a change. I’ve been several times to Mandarin Kitchen and (along... (5 replies, last updated by David A. January 27, 2002)

we are starting a kitchen remodel and I would love to put hardwood floors in but my wife thinks I’m crazy. For those who have them would you do it again? My wife thinks they will wear fast and we won’t be able to keep... (29 replies, last updated by Alacrity59 October 2, 2009)

I recently went to the Notebaert Nature Museum in Lincoln Park of Chicago, and they had this great exhibit about going “green” in the kitchen. For those of you who don’t know, to go green means to use products... (85 replies, last updated by MakingSense September 6, 2007)

be the amount of space one of these things would waste. Because my kitchen is dimensionally challenged, I’ve decided to forego many utensils and machines that seem interesting but are not essential. But of all the useless... (101 replies, last updated by eLizard April 13, 2008)

I just move to a new city and have been looking at buying a new house. The problem is, that the kitchen is the most important room for me, and also the most difficult and costly room to remodel if you want to make changes.... (141 replies, last updated by jjonak July 26, 2008)

is salvage yards or the junk bin at granite yards. There, you can buy scrap marble or other fancy countertops at ridiculously low prices ($100) which, while scraps to others, will be sufficient to cover your kitchen. Lastly, you... (34 replies, last updated by Pei October 5, 2009)

in the kitchen. If I am reading a really great cookbook I get very focused on the kitchen and try new things. (22 replies, last updated by widehomehi July 5, 2007)

When making chicken stock, I have on several occasions pour the stock down the drain when straining it. I now use Kitchen Basics in the yellow box. (189 replies, last updated by greygarious September 20, 2009)

bags for wrapping up smelly scraps to seal up in freezer till trash day — so it doesn’t stink up my trash can and kitchen. tell me your ideas, please. thanks. ps, funny how the thriftiness i learned from my mom (a... (53 replies, last updated by opehlia payne June 12, 2009)