Bloom Tote Bag

Carry a garden on your arm.

Environmentally Friendly Picnic Supplies

Enjoy the outdoors without trashing it. (By Roxanne Webber)

Meals, Ready to Eat

Today there are 24 different MRE menus, such as Cheese Tortellini, Jamaican Pork Chop, and Jambalaya. Most are actually quite tasty. (By Matt Palmquist)

Winter 2008 Gift Guide

There’s never been a better time to give.

Epicurious readers discuss the most reliable lunch containers. (By Kara Zuaro)

Where to find too-good-to-eat totes, coin purses, and satchels. (By Kara Zuaro)

Baggu expands its range of grocery totes. (By Eric Slatkin)

Whole Foods announces it will stop offering plastic bags by Earth Day. (By Miriam Wolf)

Anya Hindmarch’s “green” tote bag is the iPhone of the grocery shopping world. (By Tea Austen Weaver)

Beer in a bag sounds risky; further investigation proves that this is exactly the case. (By James Norton)

Slate’s video on the NYC Bar Show reveals the madness and the marketing. (By Miriam Wolf)

The new Zingerman’s food mail-order catalog has arrived from Ann Arbor, bringing with it scads of gourmet brownies, aged balsamics and Jewish specialty breads. Far-flung deli lovers, rejoice! (By James Norton)

So, if the astronauts get Alain Ducasse and Emeril Lagasse, what do we pathetic earthlings get? (By Stephanie V.W. Lucianovic)