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(Image credit: Apartment Therapy) Do you love pizza? We certainly do! Are you ready to make your first pizza of the season? Maybe you’d like to try to make pizza for the first time ever? Here is some of our best pizza inspiration: • Pizza and Beyond! The Kitchn

(Image credit: Apartment Therapy) A week ago Faith was in Venice, Italy, for a short trip, and of course she had to check out the market while she was there! The most famous market, the Rialto, of necessity has something of a tourist flair. Take a peek! • Rialto Market, Venice The Kitchn

(Image credit: Faith Durand) Here’s a great little tip we picked up at a cooking class in Paris a couple years ago — a faster, easier way to mince fresh herbs. It’s so easy we wondered why we had never thought of it! (Classic sign of a good tip, right?) • Faster Way to Chop

(Image credit: Apartment Therapy) Have you solved the mystery of the humidity drawer in your fridge? Last week, after seeing carrots and cucumbers not survive their time in these cryogenic chambers, we figured we had to look into how to use them properly. • Fridge Humidity Drawers The Kitchn

(Image credit: Apartment Therapy) Are you an avid home cook and reader of The Kitchn? Do you enjoy blogging, photography, and sharing your own family kitchen adventures? We are hiring a new contributor for the site. Interested? Read on to see what we’re looking for. • The Kitchn Is Hiring The Kitchn

(Image credit: Apartment Therapy) Beans and grains, we love you in veggie burgers, but we’re asking you to take a backseat for this one. Like the name implies, the star ingredients in these 10 recipes are all vegetables, from beets and micro sprouts to broccoli and corn. • Unique Veggie Burgers The Kitchn

(Image credit: Apartment Therapy) The time for Brussels sprouts is nigh, my friends! I’ll be having Brussels sprouts roasted, pan-seared, steamed, and hashed from now until they disappear into from market shelves. • All About Brussels Sprouts The Kitchn

(Image credit: Apartment Therapy) How do terracotta floor tiles perform and hold up in a kitchen? Do you have terracotta tiles in your kitchen? Share your experiences with us! • Terracotta Kitchen Tiles The Kitchn

(Image credit: Apartment Therapy) Are you reminded of your grandmother’s kitchen when you see mint green cabinets? The color mint is definitely a little retro-feeling, but like all things vintage, at some point it’s bound to make a comeback. • 10 Minty Fresh Kitchens The Kitchn

(Image credit: Apartment Therapy) October blew in the door last night, and here we are, anticipating the bounty of fall vegetables. What if you want to make autumn vegetables play the star? Here are 20 ideas to put vegetables in the center of your table tonight. • Fall Vegetables for Dinner The Kitchn

(Image credit: Emma Christensen) Every time we make vegetable stock, we wonder why we ever bother buying it in the store. It’s so easy! Chop up some vegetables, cover with water, and simmer. Done. And all in just a little over an hour. • How To Make Vegetable Stock The Kitchn

This past week I took a trip to Venice, Italy, and this included a short jaunt to Bologna to check out the huge European tile show, CERSAIE. I came away with serious tile lust for a particular luxury Italian tile company. • Italian Tile for the Kitchen The Kitchn

What constitutes a “well-stocked freezer” depends a lot on where we live, how we cook and entertain, and how big our freezers are. What are your essentials? Here are five of my own. • Top 5 Freezer Essentials The Kitchn

(Image credit: Apartment Therapy) Since it is fall and wedding planning may be in the cards for some readers, I thought it’d be a good time to share some tips for putting your own personal touch on the wedding meal. • Wedding Meal Advice The Kitchn

Today Beatrix Potter’s very rare personal recipe book will go on sale in London. The 161-year-old book recipe book is full of family recipes, and thanks to an official release by the book’s handlers, we have the actual gingerbread recipe here! • Beatrix Potter’s Gingerbread The Kitchn

(Image credit: Apartment Therapy) Honey can be quite the unwieldy ingredient. How do you store it? If you want something attractive, consider one of these sweet honey jars or pots. From jars designed to emulate a bee hive to simple ceramic pots, there are lovely choices for every style. • 10 Honey Jars and Pots

(Image credit: Apartment Therapy) Smoothies are a fast, easy breakfast, and many of us are devoted to our morning shake. So we’ve rounded up our best ideas and tips covering everything from blenders to protein powder, plus inspiring recipes with fruit, greens, and even whole grains. • 20 Smoothie Tips & Recipes The Kitchn

(Image credit: Apartment Therapy) We go behind the scenes of the food blog Love & Lemons for a tour of the pristine cottage-modern kitchen where all their lovely food and photography are produced. • A Zesty, Radiant Kitchen The Kitchn

(Image credit: Apartment Therapy) Sometimes we don’t have time for a full cleanup and overhaul of our kitchen storage, but still, the smallest effort can make the largest difference. Here are six things to do tonight that will only take you 10 minutes. • A Tidy Pantry in 10 Minutes The Kitchn

(Image credit: Apartment Therapy) The right packaging will ensure that frozen foods retain their flavor, color, and texture, without developing freezer burn or absorbing other flavors and odors. The following containers are suitable for frozen foods: • Choosing the Right Freezer Containers The Kitchn

(Image credit: Apartment Therapy) There are so many recipes that can make a little extra to be squirreled away in the freezer for a later time. These little packages from the past are a huge gift to your future self when you are busy, stressed, and in need of a quick fix. • 15 Double

(Image credit: Apartment Therapy) I’m pinching myself, but it’s true: I leave for Italy this morning on a short trip. Venice, to be precise. I’ve never been — have you? Have you visited there or other places in Italy, and if so, what was the best kitchen souvenir you brought back? • Italian Kitchen Souvenirs

Setting up a first studio at home doesn’t have to be a daunting affair. With a few inexpensive solutions, you can photograph small objects with terrific results. And you can take the principles of this contrived setting out with you into the world when shooting outside of your studio.

(Image credit: Apartment Therapy) Constant opening of doors plus hot weather equals flies. There’s not much we can do to completely prevent them from entering the building, but it would be nice to repel them from the kitchen… • How To Repel Flies The Kitchn

(Image credit: Apartment Therapy) Meals are a shared experience in most cultures, so it is a classic time for loneliness to come up if you find yourself alone at meal times. Do you eat alone often? How do you deal with the times when a single place setting at the table feels lonely? • Eating

(Image credit: Apartment Therapy) How pretty are these hammered silver cabinets? Although it’s a small kitchen, the shimmery panels make the room feel very luxe. Would you ever go for this look? • Silver Cabinets The Kitchn

(Image credit: Apartment Therapy) Ludo LeFebvre is the French-born chef and creator of the pop-up restaurant LudoBites, the hottest spot in Los Angeles. In anticipation of his new cookbook, we got a peek at his home kitchen. Take the tour with us and tell us if you notice a motif! • Ludo Kitchen Tour

(Image credit: Apartment Therapy) The pita bread you make at home is worlds apart from the stuff you buy in stores, and watching them puff to glorious heights in your oven or on your stovetop is culinary magic at its best. Here’s how to do it. It’s easy! • How To Make Pita Bread

(Image credit: Apartment Therapy) How do you get dinner on the table, week in and week out, without getting bored? How do you stay energized and engaged with the act of cooking at home? Here are fifteen of our best and most universal tips for learning how to plan your meals. • 15 Tips for

(Image credit: Apartment Therapy) Nutella (obviously). Cream cheese. A sprinkle of salt, and crusty Italian bread. Crisp toasted outside and hot, gooey inside, oozing with tangy cream cheese and the scent of chocolate and hazelnuts.This is dessert, in the guise of a sandwich. • Baked Nutella Sandwich The Kitchn

(Image credit: Apartment Therapy) I love this cheery little pantry, which illustrates some cute printable labels from Better Homes and Gardens. What I really love, though, even more than the labels, are the calendar and shopping list on the back of the door! • Pantry Meal Planner The Kitchn

(Image credit: Apartment Therapy) As I’ve researched and shopped for my own new kitchen, I’ve made some trade-offs in costs and priority that, so far, seem worth it to me. Here are five of my own save/splurge decisions for a new kitchen. • Kitchen Renovation Money The Kitchn

(Image credit: Apartment Therapy) Here are 20 of our favorite sandwiches of all shapes and sizes, from chipotle chicken fajitas, to a perfect tomato sandwich, to a spicy lentil wrap (better than Trader Joe’s!) and homemade piadinas. • 20 Scrumptious Sandwiches The Kitchn

(Image credit: Apartment Therapy) Microgreens are expensive, but they are beloved by chefs, who use their intense flavor to enhance expensive restaurant plates. But you can grow microgreens at home with nearly no effort whatsoever, and the payoff is terrific. • How to Grow Microgreens The Kitchn

(Image credit: Apartment Therapy) Would you ever put wallpaper in the kitchen? Or does the idea make you shudder? If the latter, you might have your mind changed by something unusual about the wallpaper in the photo here. • Wallpaper in the Kitchen The Kitchn

(Image credit: Apartment Therapy) I recaptured an inefficient coat closet and turned it into a cheery little pantry — one of my all-time most useful kitchen projects! Here are ten more inspiring examples of pantries, each with a takeaway for small spaces. • 10 Inspiring Pantries The Kitchn

(Image credit: Apartment Therapy) With fall just around the corner, now is the time to stock your pantry with hearty, healthy whole grains! From amaranth to wild rice, get the skinny on whole grain ingredients and whole grain flours here. • Whole Grains Guide The Kitchn

(Image credit: Apartment Therapy) Check out this ice pack that absorbs itself as it melts! It’s perfect for those who are worried about a spill or who just want to try out something cheap and simple. • Sponge Ice Packs The Kitchn

(Image credit: Apartment Therapy) Do you get hangry?! This is a very helpful word, a word to signal impending storm clouds and danger, a word to fear. Oh — not familiar with the term? Let me bring you up to speed. This is a word you should know. • Do You Get Hangry? The

(Image credit: Apartment Therapy) I am a self-professed granola bar fiend. I nearly always have a granola bar or two close at hand. Making my own from the assortment of oats, nuts, and dried fruits that are always in my cupboard was a natural next step. • Homemade Granola Bars The Kitchn

(Image credit: Apartment Therapy) It might seem crazy to forego the storage that upper cabinets offer, but there are some significant advantages in return. See 10 inspiring kitchens without uppers, and read more on why it’s sometimes a good idea. • No Upper Cabinets! The Kitchn

(Image credit: Apartment Therapy) Did you know there’s a lot of room between the studs of your walls? You can create shallow recessed cabinets and shelving between the studs. Here are five great examples in the kitchen, plus a guide to building your own recessed shelving. • Storage Between the Studs The Kitchn

(Image credit: Apartment Therapy) There’s a staggering amount of food waste happening in America. It may seem easy enough to just buy what you want and eat what you make, but in real life it can be a little tricky. Here are five tips to help. • Combat Food Waste The Kitchn

(Image credit: Apartment Therapy) Adam Brackney of Workerman just sent me a peek at the handmade goods for the kitchen he’s crafting out of wood, and I find them charming! Take a peek at his handiwork — spreaders and minimalist modern cutting boards. • Workerman Boards The Kitchn

(Image credit: Apartment Therapy) When Kitchn reader Debra bought her apartment in the Marais district of Paris in 2007, the kitchen had not been renovated since the 1950’s. She wanted it to feel integrated with the rest of the house and have a bit of a bibliothèque feel. Here’s what she did: • Kitchen Before

(Image credit: Apartment Therapy) Any world traveler has probably noticed that in most countries outside of the US and Canada, eggs aren’t stored under refrigeration. Why is that? • Is Refrigerating Eggs Necessary? The Kitchn

(Image credit: Apartment Therapy) Useless kitchen gadgets are nothing new. But egg gadgets are in league all their own. Some of the most overwrought and strange gadgets out there are for eggs. Here are a few we’re scratching our heads over: • Bizarre Egg Gadgets The Kitchn

(Image credit: Emma Christensen) The perfect soft-boiled egg should have firm, custard-like whites and a warm runny yolk. This is a slightly trickier endeavor than simply hard-boiling eggs, but nothing that can’t be mastered in the space of a Saturday morning! • Soft-Boiled Eggs The Kitchn

(Image credit: Apartment Therapy) Sophie and Iain have spent time in Rajastan and other parts of Southern India, and they love the fiery flavors of regional Indian food. Join us for a tour of their elegant, open kitchen and an interview with this charming culinary couple. • A Family-Focused Kitchen The Kitchn

(Image credit: Apartment Therapy) I don’t like to play favorites, but baking eggs in individual ramekins until the whites are barely set and the yolks reach that creamy, pudding-like consistency may, perhaps, be my egg de resistance. Here’s how to do it. • Eggs en Cocotte The Kitchn

(Image credit: Apartment Therapy) If you live in New York and frequent one of Joe’s nine locations around the city, chances are you’ve tasted Ovenly’s pastries. Word just gets around that these ladies have a food lover’s solution to dry coffeehouse pastries and bland bar peanuts. • A Tour of Ovenly The Kitchn

(Image credit: Apartment Therapy) We have good friends who are expecting their first baby any second now, and it’s had me thinking about what we should make to bring over when the day comes. What are you favorite foods to bring to new moms? Here are 10 recipe ideas: • Meals for New Moms

Say you’re going to have a dinner party and you’re using tumblers instead of stemware. Well, this simple balloon trick makes your average cup look like high-end dipped glassware. Want to see how it works? • Balloon Glassware The Kitchn

(Image credit: Apartment Therapy) Inspired by a pin or two of chalkboard walls in kitchens, I thought it fitting to have a chalkboard menu prominently on display in the dining room. So I DIY’ed a chalkboard-painted piece of plywood on the wall. Easy, not-permanent, moveable, perfect. • DIY Chalkboard Menu Board The Kitchn

(Image credit: Apartment Therapy) With so much produce at our fingertips this season, it’s time for a refresher on the proper way to store various fruits and vegetables. Here are the best ways to store apples, tomatoes, fresh basil, and many, many more varieties of fresh produce. • Fruit + Vegetable Storage The Kitchn

Whether you’re ready or not, here we are in the last week of August, and if you have wee ones at home, it’s back to school time. While those little pre-packaged snacks are appealing in their simplicity, making your own can be just as easy. • No-Bake Energy Bars The Kitchn

(Image credit: Apartment Therapy) Alina takes the best of what a country’s cooking and design tradition has to offer and brings it into her home. All the materials are natural and all the colors are warm. It seems that, aside from the food, everything about this kitchen will last forever. • Alina’s Exotic Cooking Lair

We’ve talked before about simplifying your life by paring down your email addresses to two, but today we’re going to encourage you to use at least four. Why? Read on for the details as to why we’ve had a change of heart.Three Reasons Why at Least Four Email Addresses are a Good Idea: 1. Personal & Work. 2. Spam. Ever enter a contest where you just know they’re going to send you unwanted email, but you still want to enter and not have to deal with unsubscribing?

(Image credit: Apartment Therapy) Around here, a perfectly ripe avocado can induce mania and ecstasy. Forget drugs — let’s just do avocados. We have the best of avocados for you today, from one brilliant piece of advice on how to pick a good avocado, to smart tips on dicing and storing them. • Avocado Tips

(Image credit: Apartment Therapy) Whether it’s finding a clever way to make use of every last inch of space, or developing a way to keep appliances and utensils neat and organized, we love clever kitchen storage solutions. Here are 15 examples: • 15 Storage Solutions The Kitchn

Once you make homemade nut milks at home, you’ll likely stop buying them at the store. They really are so simple, and it’s nice knowing exactly what’s in them and being able to completely control the amount of sweetness on your own. • DIY Nut Milks The Kitchn

(Image credit: Apartment Therapy) We’ve shared a few tips before on how to best separate eggs, but this trick made us stop in our tracks. We can’t understand a word of the video, but the visuals are so compelling that we don’t need to. Prepare to be amazed: • Egg Separating Trick The Kitchn

(Image credit: Apartment Therapy) Inside a nondescript warehouse on a busy street in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, Keavy Landreth makes some of the most delicious mini cupcakes I’ve ever had. Join us as we tour her kitchen! • A Visit To Kumquat Cupcakery The Kitchn

(Image credit: Apartment Therapy) I have a beautiful wooden spoon, one of my favorite things in my kitchen. It was carved by hand and because of that, it was expensive. So when I stumbled on an old article from Mother Earth News on how to carve your own wooden spoon, I was intrigued. • DIY

(Image credit: Apartment Therapy) Cold from the fridge, a cup of watermelon is my favorite August treat. Here’s the best way I’ve found to quickly and easily cut a watermelon into neat, even cubes for snacks and salads. • Cutting a Watermelon The Kitchn

When you’re single, it’s all on you to keep it new and fresh in the kitchen, and that can be a challenge. Read on for seven ways to introduce new ways of cooking and thinking about food. (And yes, these tips will work for non-single households as well!) • Get Your Cooking Mojo Back

(Image credit: Apartment Therapy) I cannot believe school is starting already! It’s time for the lunchbox to emerge from the dark cupboard you stashed it in all summer, and it’s time to stock it with some good snacks for fall. Here are 15 favorites — all homemade and yummy. • 15 Homemade Snacks The

It isn’t always easy to find premade versions of common African spice blends like Ras el Hanout at the local supermarket, but the truth is, if you have a well-stocked spice rack, you likely have almost all the components to make these mixtures on your own. • 5 African Spice Blends The Kitchn

(Image credit: Emma Christensen) Cleaning up is not exactly anyone’s favorite part of cooking. Even so, there are three tools that are worth washing as soon as you’re finished using them. It will make life so much easier for you. • Tools To Clean Right Away The Kitchn

(Image credit: Apartment Therapy) Today we celebrate kale’s heartiness in all its forms: Baked into crispy, light kale chips. Shredded into a salad softened with peanut dressing. Tender underneath baked egg and chickpeas. Simmered into a turkey chili. • Kale Recipes The Kitchn

(Image credit: Apartment Therapy) Shopping for cabinet hardware can be overwhelming, so to help ease the stress we’ve provided a list of 10 online shopping sources for cabinet knobs and pulls to get you started. We think you’re bound to find what you’re looking for at one of these places! • Kitchen Cabinet Hardware

(Image credit: Apartment Therapy) Cookie Monster’s famous cookie dough recipe first appeared in Big Bird’s Busy Book, from the 1970’s. If you like a bit of nostalgia mixed in with your sugar and eggs, this recipe is for you! • Cookie Monster’s Cookie Recipe The Kitchn