Celebrities and Portable Microwaves

Products we loved at the International Home & Housewares Show. (By Louisa Chu)

Move over peanut butter and jelly: Your time is up. These days kids are getting supercute and healthy lunches, thanks to their bento-blogging moms. (By Tea Austen Weaver)

Eco-Friendlier Takeout

Metal boxes may help reduce takeout-generated waste. (By James Norton)

Working Class Hero

Caviar in a lunchbox.

Cubicle Cuisine

The perfect brown-bag lunch would be part store-bought, part easy-home-made, it wouldn’t take long to assemble the night before. Just like childhood lunch-box spreads, it would have multiple pieces, including snack and cookies.

Sweet Salvation

Count on these mail-order chocolates for last-minute holiday gifts. (By Roxanne Webber)

Oreo Cakesters and Yoplait Go-Gurt Fizzix

This week’s mission: squishy Oreos and carbonated yogurt. (By James Norton)

Time for School Lunch

Meals for making your mark on the blacktop.

Overlooked and Misunderstood

The building blocks of the kitchen should get a little more attention. (By Aida Mollenkamp and Regan Burns)

Summer 2009 Gift Guide

All your warm-weather gifting needs met. (By Lessley Anderson and Roxanne Webber)

Juno launches a craze for hamburger phones. (By Miriam Wolf)

The Today show’s recent feature on healthier choices for kids’ school lunchboxes provides a nice introductory primer for the burgeoning line of snack-y, grab-and-go foods produced by natural foods makers. (By Joyce Slaton)

If you’re so inclined, Sam’s Club stores sell frozen sushi made by Ajinomoto. (By C. Thi Nguyen)

Wild rice isn’t rice, but a type of grass. It’s hardy stuff and will keep a very long time. Lunchbox kept some for 2 years with no detectable loss of quality. ... (By C. Thi Nguyen)

The challenge of a daily lunchbox confronts parents everywhere. (By Tea Austen Weaver)