Editor's Note: Nikki Goldstein, longtime friend of Serious Eats and our newest contributor, will be checking in with a different kitchen gadget every week. Please welcome Nikki! Few would dare question the power of pancakes as comfort food--what's better than waking up to the smell of warm batter puffing up into cakey vehicles for syrup and jam? If you thought this was the pinnacle of Sunday brunch, meet the aebelskiver. It's a warm, doughy concoction that essentially crosses a pancake with a jelly doughnut. They're relentlessly addicting. While many trek to the few eateries that make these fresh (including Aunt Else's in the Twin Cities area, Shopsin's in New York City, and almost any place in Solvang, California), aebelskivers are...
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Is your office building made of a steel pot? Apartment tower, actually a cheese grater? Beijing-based sculptor Zhan Wang engineered this San Francisco cityscape out of kitchenware tools you're used to finding at William Sonoma. Stainless steel pots, pans, silverware, plates, graters. San Francisco's Asian Art Museum will run the exhibit until May 25. [via BoingBoing]...
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Meg Hourihan pits a $10 kitchen-supply pan against a similar $40 All-Clad model.
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