Skip to: Content
Skip to: Site Navigation
Skip to: Search
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2009
| Subscribe to Newser's RSS feeds RSS | Follow Newser on Twitter Twitter

NEWS ABOUT: kitchen

kitchen stories: 5 news summaries

Now In Child's Old Kitchen, No Meat—or Butter!

Vegetarian occupants hope chef 'is not rolling over in her grave'

Sep 1, 09 1:09 PM CDT
(Newser) - The sacrilege! Not only has the kitchen in Julia Child’s former Cambridge home—familiar to millions of devotees of her show—been renovated to within an inch of its life, the Boston Globe reports, its new owners have hung a picture of a cow with the caption: “... More »

MORE ABOUT:
French cooking • cooking • vegetarianism • vegan • cookbooks • kitchen • Julia Child • Cambridge, Mass. • Lisa Landsverk

(Newser) - If you missed out on cashing in on that clunker in your driveway, your next chance may be no farther than the kitchen, USA Today reports. Stimulus funds that will give consumers rebates as high as $200 for replacing old, inefficient appliances with newer models are due to start flowing... More »

MORE ABOUT:
recycling • electricity • washers • clothes dryers • kitchen • utilities • refrigerator • home appliances • Cash for Clunkers • freezer • stimulus funds • women's issues

Top Kitchen Gadget ... the Cell Phone?

It won't make coffee or dice, but can download recipes, call Mom

Jan 21, 09 12:18 PM CST
(Newser) - Forget about trying to buy newlyweds the ultimate kitchen appliance: They almost certainly already have two. For both everyday cooks and professional chefs, the cell phone has become the go-to gadget, the New York Times reports. What other tool could combine the functions of timer, measurement converter, recipe generator, shopping-list... More »

MORE ABOUT:
technology • cell phones • cooking • recipes • kitchen • home appliances

Nation Cooking on Radioactive Countertops

That fancy granite may contain more uranium than is good for you

Jul 24, 08 10:07 AM CDT
(Newser) - Granite countertops have become exceedingly popular, but few realize the dapper slabs can be radioactive, the New York Times reports. Granite often contains uranium, and reports have been flowing in of “hot” counters giving off higher-than-recommended levels of radon gas. “It’s not that all granite is dangerous,... More »

MORE ABOUT:
cancer • home improvement • radiation • uranium • kitchen • granite countertops • radon

OPINION

Porsche Gets Kitchen Cooking

Famous car designer rethinks fridge, more, with focus on man appeal

Feb 15, 08 7:22 PM CST
(Newser) - For wealthy people with nothing better to do than match their expensive cars with their ostentatious kitchens, Porsche has just the thing, the Wall Street Journal's Robert Frank writes. The automaker is one of many luxury businesses trying their hands in completely different industries. Its "man kitchen" sports a... More »

MORE ABOUT:
interior design • Porsche • kitchen • Poggenpohl

5 Stories


from our news partners