Environmentally Friendly Picnic Supplies

Enjoy the outdoors without trashing it.

Pointing the Finger at Finger Foods

Caesar salads, sushi— where do you draw the line on what’s polite to eat with your fingers?

Drunk on Recycling

Can you ask guests to bring their own cups?

How Green Is Your Takeaway Container?

Which takeaway containers are the most (and least) green?

Fork on the Left, Knife on the Floor

Designers reinvent the table setting.

Sharpen Up

How to care for your knives.

Bring It

The best rolls and cases for carrying your knives.

Buenos Aires: Faded Elegance, High Design

Buenos Aires’s up-and-coming San Telmo neighborhood.

to certain parties in case they are handing out plastic cutlery. My wife thinks I’m a crackpot, but whenever I’ve brought real cutlery to a plastic-only event, other people seem to think it’s a great idea. Can I...

Once again, we’ve managed to accumulate a horrifically large stash of plastic cutlery from takeout, though we always tell restaurants we don’t want utensils when we place our orders. We don’t use plastic cutlery...

A PR campaign from the Colonel proposes that we dress up a little Original Recipe for a nice dinner in.

Pocket check: wallet, cell phone, keys, nutmeg box.

What will dining look like in 2015? A design competition has some weird ideas.

nearly any cuisine. We’d like something a little more classy than plastic cutlery and stained formica tables if possible :o), and the kind of atmosphere where we can relax and enjoy our meal, maybe an after dinner drink or...

What’s the rationale behind the plastic cutlery? It’s so wasteful. If they now have real plates, presumably they wash them, so what’s the big deal in washing some cutlery as well? They’ll spend less on the...