This water purifier by Waterwise does more than filter water. It’s a distiller for the ultimate in clean water. It also can handle up to 6 gallons of water a day and has a timer to let you schedule it to run over night for your morning coffee. Unlike the basic filters, steam distillation removes [...]
I’m visiting my sister in North Carolina where a purty country kitchen is not a cliche. It’s not uncommon to find kitchens filled with antiques, Americana, hand made pottery, and references to farm yard animals. These kitchen items will help you bring a bit of country kitchen to even the most urban kitchenettes around the [...]
The teapot whistle heard ’round the world. Michael Graves’ singing teapot is now available in a special edition with black accents. This iconic teapot with the little bird perched on the pouring spot was released in 1985 and was the first item by an American designer to be produced by Alessi. In the home design [...]
Madeleines are small cake like cookies made famous around the world by Marcel Proust‘s Remembrance of Things Past: She sent out for one of those short, plump little cakes called petites madeleines, which look as though they had been moulded in the fluted scallop of a pilgrim’s shell. And soon, mechanically, weary after a dull [...]
