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Kitchen Sink Cadillac

Beyond Way Above and

by J. Michael Wheeler
Kitchen Sink Cadillac

Must see slide show from the New York Times:

Built by General Motors for its 1956 Motorama show, a touring exhibition of extravagant dream cars and the latest automotive technology, this Cadillac was loaded with conveniences to serve that era's on-the-go potentate with a hearty appetite. The space once devoted to the front passenger seat is replaced by a raft of culinary gadgets, including a toaster, refrigerator, hot plate, cutlery holder and, yes, a kitchen sink.

See the Kitchen Sink Cadillac

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Chocolate (Postage) Stamps

Beyond Above and

by J. Michael Wheeler
Who Wants to Lick the Stamps?

Send your loved ones chocolate in the mail. Well, actually on the mail. In France, (where else?) food and postage are strangely blended as a .56€ first class postage stamp. These chocolate-scented postage stamps tell the story of chocolate from bean to bar in ten scented stamps.

At La Boutique Web du Timbre, the French Post Office online stamp store, the Bloc Le Chocolat is described:

Le chocolat est un aliment issu de la fève de cacao après fermentation et torréfaction. Le cacaoyer est originaire d’Amérique centrale et des forêts tropicales humides d’Amazonie. Monnaie d’échange, nourriture des Dieux, favoris des cours des grands rois, plaisir des enfants d’aujourd’hui, le chocolat est devenu un mythe dont l’histoire est retracée sur un bloc de 10 timbres traités de façon hyper réaliste. Le bloc est imprégné d’une senteur chocolat.

(Chocolate is a food derived from the cocoa bean after fermentation and roasting. The cacao tree is native to Central America and the rainforests of the Amazon. Currency exchange, food of the gods, favorite of the great kings, and joy for children of today, chocolate has become a myth whose history is traced on a block of 10 hyper realistic stamps. The block is impregnated with a chocolate scent.)

Your Bloc Le Chocolat is available at La Poste in France of course, but you can order a box, I mean a sheet, of chocolate-scented stamps online. La Boutique Web du Timbre. With stamps like these, snail mail may make a comeback: Viva la poste d'escargot!

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New Lines and FREE SHIPPING

Savings Holiday

FREE SHIPPING on Our New Lines
at Foodie's Emporium!
Starting Wednesday, November 25th, at FIVE AM, Pacific Standard Time, ‘til Saturday November 28th, at Midnight, Pacific Standard Time, choose from our wonderful new kitchen lines and products listed here, and Shipping is FREE on purchases over $50 at Foodie's Emporium!

Use promo code THANKFUL at checkout!

Mauviel Mheritage Collection 5 Piece Cookware Set, Cast Iron Handles, with Wooden Crate
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The strength and foundation for Mauviel's manufacturing expertise is based upon a rich tradition of copper manufacturing that has been handed down from generation to generation for nearly 180 years. The Mheritage collection is a combination of two powerful and traditional materials, copper and stainless steel.The polished copper exterior provides unsurpassed heat conductivity and control, and the stainless steel interior ensures fast and easy cleanup. The handles are riveted to the pan for a durable, solid grip. The Mheritage collection represents the total experience and heritage of Mauviel 1830, and is used by professionals and household cooks throughout the world. Mauviel

Emile Henry Flame Top Round Dutch Oven/Stew Pot, 7 quart
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Emile Henry's ceramic bakeware and tableware has been made in Marcigny France since 1850, from high fired Burgundy clay found in the region. The natural clay is unsurpassed for conducting and retaining heat. Solid, durable and lead-free, our dishes retain heat to keep your foods warm. They are dishwasher safe, go directly from freezer to oven, and are chip, crack and scratch-resistant. Ideal for use on any type of stove or in the oven, they are also attractive serving dishes at the table. The Flame-Top Dutch Oven / Stewpot cooks evenly and gently when used on top of the stove, in the oven or even in the microwave. Emile Henry

5 Knife Set Handcrafted by Knife Designer Adam Simha
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Knife designer Adam Simha designs and handcrafts absolutely superb bench-made high-performance steel blades for his knives. These designs feature body geometry influenced by the best of both Asian and Western traditions. The unique grip: MKS knives come with an injection-molded bicycle grip that is tightly fitted over a naturally bacteria-resistant stainless steel tube. They are visually remarkable and functionally exquisite. Free with every purchase: a rawhide honing strap. Foodie's Emporium is proud to be an exclusive online retailer of Adam's amazing knives. Handcrafted in Cambridge, Massachusetts MKS Design Handcrafted Knives

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Cuisipro Cook's Tools: Cuisipro designers pioneer the use of new technologies and materials to make cooking more enjoyable and time-efficient. Cuisipro products attract the eye with simple elegance and refined and timeless design. 

Little Barrel WineWear Little Barrel Designs is a luxury line of wine-themed accessories, fun and stylish items suitable for people who are into wine and the wine country lifestyle. Using colorful patterns of wine bottles, wine glasses, and grapevines, the designers have created high-quality essentials for any wine-lover's wardrobe. 

Soiree Bottle-top Wine Decanter  The Soiree is a wine accessory that fits into any standard corked wine bottle, and comes with an extra gasket that will work with any screw cap bottle; allowing you to pour, without dripping, directly through the Soiree. Once you place the Soiree in the wine bottle, the Soiree aerates your wine as you pour it. The Soiree allows you to decant just the portion of wine you want - a glass or a carafe. (Free shipping on Soiree is on our single unit only.)

Ravi, the Instant Wine Refresher An indispensible accessory for wine lovers! The Ravi instant wine refresher is a sleek, easy-to-use accessory that is placed on the neck of the wine bottle to chill your wine to your perfect drinking temperature. You cool your wine at the very moment it's served, bringing out all the properties of your wine and not altering the taste in any way. No need to fuss with ice buckets or go back and forth to the refrigerator during meals.

Storvino Wine Storage System The Storvino wine modules are sturdy and stackable, giving you customized flexibility for storing all of your wines. Each module holds 6 bottles and can be positioned vertically or horizontally. GREEN Product: all Storvino modules are made of 100% Post Consumer Recycled HDPE! 

Kalorik Dual Zone Wine Cooler  Keep your wine at the perfect drinking temperature with Kalorik's Dual Zone Wine Cooler. Most wine storage systems control storage temperature, not drinking temperature. (Storage temperatures are much colder than drinking temperatures.) Our Dual Zone Wine Cooler keeps your wine at the best wine drinking temperature: your wines are always ready to drink.

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Handcrafted Kitchen Knives

Kitchen Handcrafted

by J. Michael Wheeler
Kitchen Art That Starts in Your Hand
It doesn't matter what your passion is: when you've got it, you've got it. We recently had the pleasure of meeting Adam Simha, a master at handcrafting kitchen knives. He is very passionate about his craft. He makes superlative bench-made knives. We are honored to be one of the only venues where MKS Design knives are sold.

Knife designer Adam Simha designs and handcrafts absolutely superb bench-made high-performance steel blades for his knives. These designs feature body geometry influenced by the best of both Asian and Western traditions. His blades are tempered to a Rockwell 56 hardness to provide toughness, easy sharpening, and remarkable edge holding. Steels used in the different blades are 13C26, 440-C, 154CM, and SF77 stainless.

The unique grip: MKS knives come with an injection-molded bicycle grip that is tightly fitted over a naturally bacteria-resistant stainless steel tube. The bicycle grip, with its deep grooves for the fingers, provides a perfect balance of shock absorption and control.

Each knife is tuned precisely for weight, balance, and control. They are visually remarkable and functionally exquisite and have been featured in many publications including Atlantic Monthly, the Boston Globe, City, and Kitchenware News.

Foodie's Emporium is proud to be an exclusive online retailer of Adam's amazing knives.

MKS Design Knives are produced in limited quantities and are available at Foodies Emporium.

For a very limited time we are offering our readers
10% OFF any MKS Design Knife Selection or Knife Set.
Use Promo Code MKSPRCNT at check out.

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Kitchen 2.0

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Adapted from Gourmet magazine 11.07
by J. Michael Wheeler

Gourmet magazine usually makes our appetites roar, but this time the hunger is for the appliances rather than the food. They’ve created a list of 21 innovative new appliance options that you’ll want to check out if you’re building a new kitchen or remodeling your old one. In fact, after seeing what’s now available, you just might decide you have to remodel now!

Here’re some of my favorites from the article:

The Space hood by Elica (pictured above — yeah, that's an oven hood on the wall!). The three-dimensional aluminum filter makes this oven hood 35% quieter than other hoods. But the design is so stunning you might consider just hanging it in the living room. elica.com.

Our Kitchen Store Grand Opening!!!

 

We're really excited to announce the GRAND OPENING of Foodie's Emporium, our new online kitchen store. It's filled with thousands of hard to find kitchen and cooking gadgets, products, and ingredients.

In Foodie's Emporium at DancingSpoon you'll find those perfect kitchen things, like chardonnay smoked sea salt, bamboo cutting boards, Dutch Ovens, truffle oils, knife sets, an oh-so-cool French Press, gourmet pastas, and every whisk* you might ever need!

And to make buying quick, easy, and secure, we've teamed up with the most trusted name in online shopping, Amazon.com. You can shop and purchase with confidence using your existing Amazon.com account, or create a new one right in our store. Buy with Amazon.com security.

Shop  Foodie's Emporium where you'll always find that perfect kitchen thing you've been looking for! Check out  Foodie's Emporium. Click here! And right now we're offering FREE shipping on orders over $25 on qualifying items: and most items qualify.

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Thanks, J. MIchael Wheeler

The Palm Peeler

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A better mousetrap? We think so. We've got a drawer full of vegetable peelers, and frankly, they all leave something to be desired. Meet your newest kitchen gadget: the Palm Peeler.

It's a peeler that slips over your middle finger with the peel blades beneath. That means that the peeler is an extension of your palm, hence the name. And that gives you great control over the peeler.

Peeling slices of ginger is alway tricky. Last night I took a two inch slice of ginger and within moments, using the Palm Peeler, I had a perfectly naked slice ready to be minced. ( I was making a marinade for grilled chicken: minced ginger and garlic, some mirin (rice cooking wine), soy sauce, balsamic vinegar, a touch of molasses and Tabasco.)

The Palm Peeler is an inexpensive and very cool kitchen tool. It comes in three colors: avocado (shown), cherry, and stainless. Try it and it will become your peeler of choice!

 

Make Your Own Wine

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You Even Design the Label

If you thought making wine in your kitchen was exciting (see Is it Wine Yet?) how about becoming a real winemaker without the fuss of actually having a vineyard. There’s a company in California called Crushpad, located in the heart of San Francisco, where you can do just that.

While making your own wine will be fun and exciting, at Crushpad it's also serious business. You won't be alone when you set out to create that perfect cult wine: Crushpad provides grapes from California's top vineyards, they have their own winemaking team, and a state-of-the-art winery. You choose your level of involvement and they “do the rest.” Their very robust web site is great at getting the juices flowing (sorry, couldn’t resist that one), whether you’re a new winemaker or an experienced one. They tell us:

Weigh In

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No, no, don’t use your measuring cup to scoop your flour! You need to pour the flour into your measuring cup so it doesn’t compress. Then be sure to take the back of a knife and level the cup. Oh, by the way, you probably should take that knife and stir up all the flour before you start scooping; it settles during shipping. And yeah, you need to do this whole procedure with each cup you measure out.

Or, you could use a scale.

While the rest of the world weighs most ingredients, we, here in the States, measure them. And measuring is not especially accurate. Is a cup of bran the same as a cup of whole-wheat flour? Not by weight. In fact, a cup of unsifted white flour will weigh five ounces, while a cup of sifted flour will weigh only four ounces. And if you’re baking bread that uses eight cups of flour, then you’ve just added one full cup of flour. In baking that leads to disaster.

Is It Wine Yet?

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Winepod: Wine Geek Meets, Well, Geek
Forget the bucolic scene of the wizened old French winemaker with his dusty beret, stubble on his chin, and a cigarette plugged into the corner of his mouth. Think of what a child of R2D2 and your Sub-Zero refrigerator would be like. Well, it would be like a WinePod.

The Wine Geek Part
The WinePod people tell us that, “The WinePod is a state-of-the-art tool for small lot artisan winemaking. The WinePod integrates fermentation, pressing, and ageing in one elegant unit yet it is simple and easy to use. The WinePod controls the heat of fermentation and maintains appropriate ageing temperature using electronically controlled thermoelectric heating and cooling. Your wine ferments and ages in a variable-capacity stainless steel tank with an integrated wine press.”