I had the good fortune to visit the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan last week. The huge installation of Richard Serra sculptures was impressive and well worth a stroll through the museum's courtyard and upper floors. However, it was The Modern, Danny Meyer's restaurant on the ground floor that really had me smiling. My wife and I enjoyed a great lunch in The Bar Room that offered small plates of Alsatian cuisine, including fresh poached "Egg in a Jar" and grilled diver scallops. It was just the right kind of quick yet sophisticated refresher you need after two hours of digesting modern art. From there, it was a quick dash across the street to the MoMA store to peruse...
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After decades of Pyrex primacy, the last ten years have seen some advances in liquid measuring tools. The arrival of the angled "view from above" measuring cup spared home cooks the neck-craning, easy-to-mess-up chore of eyeballing the level. The innovation was cause for much rejoicing, and if you haven't bought one for your kitchen yet, you won't regret springing $7 on the OXO Angled Measuring Cup with its rubberized handle. Along similar lines, the narrow base and wide mouth of Emsa's Perfect Beaker makes smaller liquid measurements easier to accomplish. On the dry-measure frontier, things aren't quite as rosy. There is plenty of variety in dry measuring cups and spoons but really no clear-cut quantum leaps. Not to say that...
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If you're looking to buy new pots and pans, Le Creuset recently launched a new colorway called Caribbean Blue and boy is it pretty. I always figured that when I bought a French Oven it would be a deep red, but the Caribbean Blue one is incredibly tempting. $79.95 to $220.00 at Sur La Table. [via Kitchen Contraptions] (Also super cute: the Caribbean Blue Oval Skillet Grill. And it's more pocket friendly at $59.95!)...
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Robyn Lee (AKA The Girl Who Ate Everything, AKA Serious Eats's intern for the spring semester) is in Paris on spring break, where she found these amazingly cute salt and pepper shakers at a street fair. Unfortunately, she didn't get the name of the manufacturer, otherwise we'd be importing these like crazy. IMG_9376 [Robyn's Flickr photo stream]...
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To me, there are a bunch of words that are inherently funny, but on its own the funniest of them all is the word "pants". Which is probably half the reason why I want to buy industrial designer Liz Kinnmark's Egg Pants egg cup if it ever goes into production; the other half being that it's just so darn cute. (Never encountered an egg cup in the wild before? Here's how to use them. And there are at least two blogs dedicated to egg cup collecting: Una huevera al día (in Spanish) and egg cups.) [via Tastespotting]...
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