Kitchen

Design for the Real World: Spoon

Arts, Culture & Media

Graphic designer Leslie Smolan on the functional beauty of the spoon.

Liza Lou

Arts, Culture & Media

Marge Piercy

Arts, Culture & Media

Special Guest: Nora Ephron

Arts, Culture & Media

Evolution of the American Kitchen

Arts, Culture & Media

Design for the Real World: Can Opener

Arts, Culture & Media

Nike shoe designer Tinker Hatfieldwrestles with the form and function of his newest kitchen appliance, a canopener.

Cooks

Inside the New Zealand kitchen empowering women refugees

Food

Pomegranate Kitchen is an organization in Wellington, New Zealand’s capital city, that employs women refugees. They provide catering services — from light snacks and office lunches to sit-down dinners and large celebrations.

Popcorn

We’ve been nuking our food for 50 years now — but how do microwaves even work?

Technology

Some lingering questions about the magnetron in your kitchen, answered.

Despina Economou, the Greek cooking instructor for League of Kitchens' cooking school.

Learn authentic ethnic cuisine in an immigrant’s kitchen

Lifestyle & Belief

With more nationalities living together than any other place on earth, New York City is the world’s melting pot. But what’s melting inside all those pots? Imagine if you could visit some of the home cooks from around the world and learn the secret to Indian Tikka Masala or Greek Tiropita. The League of Kitchens aims to do just that.

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

After this week’s attacks around Boston, the common, household pressure cooker has become associated with death, destruction and the Boston Marathon. But this fairly simple pot is a crucial cooking tool around the world. And it’s going to need an image makeover.