No more waiting in line at the drive-thru lane or juggling eggs in a skillet and English muffins popping out of the toaster.

David is wooed when Michael Ruhlman waxes poetic about one of his can’t-live-without ingredients. A love story, with recipes.

It had certainly seemed innocent enough. It was, after all, just a mushroom growing kit. Or that’s what she thought….

LC’s Queen of Recipe Testing, Beth Price, has a dirty little secret. She hates to peel garlic. Here she shares her shameless solution.

A splurge at Anthropologie reveals some unabashedly girlie French knives with an unmistakably masculine appeal.

So long, microwave. We’ve found a far more reliable contraption for popping popcorn, and it’s dancing buttery circles around you. Jenna Levy says good riddance.

These nifty little expressions of body art are the perfect stocking stuffers for commitment-phobic culinistas (just like LC’s own Lindsay Myers).

An iconoclastic mustard appeared via what can only be described as divine intervention. Then it led us straight into temptation.

Sweet solutions to stubborn problems. That’s a motto our managing editor loves—and the reason she’s head over hand-mixer for Cookies for Kids’ Cancer.

When the consummate chocolate chip cookie goes gluten-free, Renee does a little happy dance–and explains why she thinks you will, too.