Stuff We Adore

It’s hard to find a good croissant, at least on this side of the Pond. Believe me, I’ve tried. After living in France and eating way too many of these amazingly flaky pastries, I realize I complete took them for granted. It’s something I have regretted with each bite of most inadequate US-based croissants.
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The Magnum isn’t especially pretty, but it’s one of the best workhorses in the kitchen. Its specialty? Pepper. Loads and loads of glorious pepper. Just the smallest twist makes freshly ground pepper rain down on whatever you’re cooking.
One of the best features is the loading mechanism. It’s so easy. Twist a collar to the side [...]

Certain regions of the country (you know who you are) are renowned for their prowess with potluck dinners.  You stay up late the night before the shindig preparing your world-famous dish everyone has been begging for.  You serve it up in your beautiful dish and put a piece of flimsy plastic wrap over it.  We [...]

When a sincere, sweet, soccer mom purchases a display at the town fair for her Pampered Chef business, it’s only polite to stop and look through her brochure (OK, so some Stuff We Adore staffers are suckers for catalog shopping). In the newest offerings was a bright green tomato knife, the Color Coated Tomato Knife.
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