Although it does contain four recipes, Michael Pollan's new book Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation is not a cookbook. It is, however, a book for cooks, as well as a book for people who would like to cook but don't, or can't, or won't.

• Cooked by Michael Pollan
  The Kitchn

Father's Day is upon us, and our children are either making gifts or looking for things to purchase. 

It turns out finding the venue and booking a caterer for the wedding was the easy part. Now it's time to track down all of your family and friends to send out Save-the-Date cards. You could do things the old-fashioned way, calling friends and family one by one to painstakingly put together an address book. Or you could use the power of the web to send those requests, collect everyone's responses, and wrap everything together in a tidy little spreadsheet.

Name: Faith and Mike
Type of Project: Master Bathroom Creation
Location: Columbus, Ohio
Type of building: 1920s, multi-level, single family home

Last week I explained how long it took for us to get from the point of buying our house to actually starting the bathroom renovation. Much of that time was spent making decisions with our architect about layout and materials, but most was taken up by painstaking demolition, since we had to gut most of the house before our contractor could start work. Here's a play-by-play of the demolition of the space that would become our master bathroom. 

Name: Tami Pardee of Pardee Properties Real Estate
Location: Venice, CA        
Size: 1,400 square Feet
Years lived in: 6 months- own

Tami Pardee and her real estate associates just completed the renovation of this Venice bungalow located right in the heart of Abbott Kinney, a vibrant section of the Southern California beach community. Keeping the lines clean and the decor modern, the space functions as both a gorgeous office and showroom for her business and clientele. 

One of the most engaging showrooms at NeoCon 2013 this week is Buzzispace. Warm, inviting, with a strong sense of humor (and style), they are putting forward great examples of how you can pull off modern problem solving with good design.

Shirley and Berkely Smith met at the Elizabeth, New Jersey IKEA over seven years ago, and last weekend that's where they got married. The couple originally contacted the store just to plan a photo op in the exact aisle where they met, but the team at IKEA said they could do better than that. Not only was the wedding at the store, but they gave the happy couple a bunch of wedding gifts. 

In other news, Perrier re-releases Warhol designs, and check out the world's most expensive motor home. See the headlines after the jump.

We're surveying some of the coolest guys we know about life as a modern dad.

Name: Holman Wang, lawyer turned children’s writer / illustrator
Kids: Cici (3.5) and Felix (22 months)
Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada
Find me online: mycozyclassics.com

1. My favorite toy from childhood: Oh, I loved me my Atari.

2. A myth about modern dads: That we like doing housework any more than the previous generation of dads. There’s just more household disharmony now if we don’t do our share. 

We've covered ombre wallpaper before, but did you know it's also relatively easy to paint your own ombre pattern? The Front & Main blog by West Elm shows you how.