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Cookware and bakeware

Bye-bye, burners.

Magnetic induction cooking can cut your kitchen’s carbon footprint

Energy

Shifting from fossil fuels to electricity is climate-friendly, but serious cooks don’t think much of electric stoves. Will induction cooking finally catch on as an alternative?

a man walks on the street with a bunch of plastic dishes

From breast implants to ice cube trays: How silicone took over our kitchens

Food

In wake of this week’s attacks, pressure cookers will need an image makeover

Business, Economics and Jobs

Rehabilitating the Pressure Cooker after the Boston Bombing

Arts, Culture & Media

Consider the Fork: A Food Writer’s Cultural History

Consider the Fork: A Food Writer’s Cultural History

Our relationship with food is an emotional, primal, familial, and cultural one. It’s also one that’s been profoundly shaped by the march of history. From the hearth to the refrigerator and from the mortal and pestle to the Cuisinart, the journey humankind has made to satiate taste buds and nourish bodies is a winding one.   […]

Sensible Cookware

In this consumer advice segment, Steve Curwood talks with Debra Dadd Redalia about the possible health effects of cooking with various types of cookware. Redalia is the author of The Non-Toxic Home and Office.

The World

Making Moroccan jazz in California

Arts, Culture & Media

Yassir Chadley is an Imam in Oakland, and a swim coach. But he’s also a musician who blends traditional Moroccan tunes with contemporary jazz. He tells his story to producer Beth Hoffman.