Amanda Sims
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New York, NY, United States
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How to Make the Best Chicken Wings for a Crowd
Our test kitchen's tasty, easy chicken wings for a crowd are dry rubbed overnight, baked instead of fried, and served alongside a homemade barbecue sauce. → Read More
How to Tie *Much* Better Bows (& 3 Great Ribbons to Use)
I tested tying with grosgrain, satin, and wired nylon to find the best bows and figure out some improvements, by maximizing the merits of each ribbon. → Read More
Gift Wrapping 101: How to Wrap a Box with Invisible Seams
A guide to how to wrap a box, whether you want to know how to wrap a present perfectly, how to wrap a box with a lid, or how to use ribbon in your gifting. → Read More
How to Make Your Own Lucky Red Envelopes for Chinese New Year
A sole piece of paper, a few snips, and gold paint go a long way. → Read More
The African Roots of 6 Popular Design Materials
When our Shop buyers showed off Rose & Fitzgerald’s line of sturdy, woven baskets in a recent product review, Amanda Hesser felt a tug of the familiar: Her parents had brought similar pieces home from a trip to Africa when she was young. In construction, these new pieces were almost identical to her memory of them—lightweight plant fibers woven tightly, an impressively rigid construction—but… → Read More
The Zaha Hadid Structure We'll Remember Her By
Hadid is the subject of today's Google Doodle—and her design spirit still lives on → Read More
A Local's Guide to The Best Souvenirs in London
I hope you're still digging into the London package we launched last week. (It's the gift that keeps on giving.) No form of travel is complete without a little something for the road home, to remind you of where you've been—and to inspire your next trip there. We polled a host of UK-based designers, writers, community members, and friends-of-Food52 to hear their favorite ways to bring a little… → Read More
20 Ways Metallic Tape Can Put a Bright Spot in Your Day
A wink. A bright spot. A glimmer of goodness. Something about warm metallic tones—bronzes and golds and brasses and coppers—are inherently positive, especially in small unexpected doses. Enter the new metallic, foil tape that landed in our shop last week. Here are 20 ways we're using it to spread smiles. * To seal letters. SWAK! * Swapped in for clear tape when wrapping a gift. * To mount a… → Read More
20 All-Natural Spring Cleaning Tricks For the Kitchen
Some of your best tips, coupled with some of ours. → Read More
Tour Julia Sherman (Salad for President!)'s Brooklyn Home
And peep the murphy bed with magical shelves we're obsessing over → Read More
The Lightweight Danish Cookware We've Long Loved—and Now Stock!
Join the Dansk, Dansk revolution. → Read More
The Lightweight Danish Cookware We've Long Loved—and Now We Stock!
Join the Dansk, Dansk revolution. → Read More
Stuff Chicken with Herbs, Garlic & Butter to Win at Dinner
How to make Chicken Kiev and never ever regret it. → Read More
8 Edible Flowers to Brighten Your Garden—& Dinners
And how to cook with them! → Read More
A Home That Honors Black History in New Orleans: a Before & "Almost-After"
K.V. Harper's cheerful interior tells the story of a neighborhood. → Read More
A Guide to Making Cobb Salad the Way it Was Meant to Be
As in, a hodge-podge of leftovers! → Read More
24 Gadgets That Will Make Your Morning Coffee Taste Better
Our favorite grinders, brewers, and pour-over helpers. → Read More
More Dark Green Walls, Please! 8 Reasons I Love This "Trend"
A reminder, to myself as much as anyone: Calling something "a trend" doesn't make it one. ("Everyone—and I mean everyone—knows that two instances a sweeping trend makes," our Senior Staff Writer Sarah Jampel aptly quipped on this matter in her recent ode to the Broccoli Sandwich, which may or may not be trending but is very good to eat.) Similarly, it'd be ridiculous for me to state without… → Read More
The Answer to Dinky-Looking Flower Arrangements
Last Friday, our incredibly lovely Director of Customer Care Rebecca got married. And very casually, on the Monday before her wedding, she posited a question to me in Slack: > My wedding is this Friday and I'm doing my own flower arrangements. Let's take a pause here to appreciate the fact that Rebecca is a complete badass. Moving on: > I know I for sure want ranunculus and anemones but… → Read More
A Play-By-Play Guide to Deep Cleaning Your Pantry This Saturday
Or Sunday, or any day you have the day. → Read More