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We’re celebrating remarkable women in the worlds of food and design throughout Women Are Amazing Month (aka Women’s History Month, Food52-style). Is there a woman we should be profiling? Let us know.

Shay Carrillo is the founding partner and chief c…

We're celebrating remarkable women in the worlds of food and design throughout Women Are Amazing Month (aka Women's History Month, Food52-style). Is there a woman we should be profiling? Let us know.

Shay Carrillo is the founding partner and chief creative officer of Portland, Oregon-based linen brand MADRE. With the help of her talented team, she designs timeless, beautiful linens that brighten any occasion. Recently, we caught up with Shay to learn more about her design process, why MADRE is "for everyone," and how being a mother influences her work.

The Sill’s Eliza Blank Is Branching Into New Territory

Eliza Blank was once a very bad plant parent—a su…

Eliza Blank was once a very bad plant parent—a surprising origin story for the founder of the plant business, The Sill. Her quest to make her New York City apartment as plant-filled as her mother’s New England home was initially a bust; she couldn’t keep her Home Depot purchases alive. But out of her frustration came her breakthrough idea to take a dated business model—mail-order plants—and update it for monstera-loving city dwellers who could order houseplants and learn how to take care of them online. Today, The Sill includes four locations that support its nationwide delivery business, and is taking a big leap forward this spring as it begins offering outdoor plants and gardening products alongside its houseplant collection. Below, I asked Eliza—now a bonafide plant queen and mom to two girls—about the joys and challenges of growing her business.

Virginia Sin’s Brooklyn Studio Is a Ceramicist’s Dream

Virginia Sin, the founder and creative director o…

Virginia Sin, the founder and creative director of Brooklyn-based ceramics and home goods brand, SIN, has long been part of the Food52 community. We’ve been lucky to carry her beautiful, thoughtful work in our Shop for over a decade, and anxiously await her new designs each season.

Raise the Bar (& Your Baking) With These New Five Two Goods

The secret ingredient in every one of our Five Two products has always been our community. Using your input and reviews, we design the ultimate tools, and that goes for our latest drop of bakeware and barware. From easy-release loaf pans to brass bottle stoppers, these game-changing goods will help make the holidays celebratory and sweet, but they’ll be just as pretty, practical, and perfect for hosting in the new year, too. Give your home bar and baking a refresh—or surprise a special host—with one of these community-inspired items.

Five Two Bakeware

Let us guess: You’ve been baking up a storm this season, and there’s at least one old, warped pan you’d like to remove from heavy rotation. Enter our all-new bakeware. Their two-toned design—pretty blue nonstick enamel inside, even-heating aluminized steel outside—means they travel from oven to table seamlessly and guarantee easy releases and cleaning. Add essentials like platinum-grade silicone mats and cooling racks to our sheet pans, or order as a set, and make it even easier to go from baking cookies to sliding a sheet-pan dinner into the oven.

5 Gift Ideas For The Baker in Your Life

If you have a friend or family member who loves to bake, then consider yourself lucky. Why, you might ask? Because they are some of the easiest people to buy for. And take that from someone who loves to bake, and is overjoyed when gifted with any cookbook, kitchen gadget, or decorative cake plate. Additions to our baking collection are always welcome, whether it’s a kitchen tool, a fun new ingredient, or something food-themed (like a butter ornament, for example–hint hint). With that said, here are some of my top gift picks for that special baker in your life.

1. Magnetic Retro Kitchen Timer

Okay yes, this isn’t necessarily baking exclusive, however, what baker wouldn’t want this retro kitchen timer hanging out in the kitchen? It’s cute, it comes in several different colors for you to choose from, and it sticks to the fridge which means you’ll never lose it. Plus, it eliminates the need to attempt to set a timer on your phone with flour-covered fingers. And if that’s not a win, I don’t know what is.

Let’s Dansk: These All-New Reissues Are Back to Grace Your Home

If you know us, you know we love Dansk, the heritage brand that we added to the Food52 family in 2021. Adored by collectors and our community, Dansk helped popularize the mid-century modern look in America through its streamlined, stylish household goods designed by Danish artist, Jens Quittsgaard. You’re probably very familiar with one of his collections: the boldly colored Købenstyle line of cookware and pitchers that became instant bestsellers—and props for stars like Sarah Jessica Parker—when we reissued the collection with new and limited-edition colors.

Now, we’re excited to announce a brand-new assortment of Dansk classics in our Shop, perfect for holiday gifting and setting your table, Scandinavian-style. These new Dansk reissues are all based upon Jens' original designs, and include pieces that will make entertaining more magical this season, from teak salad bowls to iconic candle holders. Here are a few of the time-tested pieces you’ll want to add to your growing Dansk collection—we’re pretty sure you’ll be just as smitten with them as we are. (Plus, on Nov. 14, you can take 30% off with code DANSK30.)

36 Gifts To Give That Are $50 or Less

As holiday shopping begins, we can almost hear our bank accounts and credit cards sighing a little each time we buy a gift for our friends and family. We want to find those perfect presents for the special people in our lives, but, let’s be real, it st…

To help keep stress lower this holiday season, we've pulled together 36 gifts from our Shop that are $50 or less. Keep reading to see if any of our picks could be a fit for the people on your to-gift list.

The Most Impressive Holiday Grazing Boards Start With an Online Order

We’ve teamed up with FreshDirect to help with this year’s holiday menus. From grazing boards and hors d’oeuvres to dinner party entrees and show-stopping desserts, FreshDirect has the essentials to keep things stress-free for anyone hosting this season…

We’ve teamed up with FreshDirect to help with this year's holiday menus. From grazing boards and hors d'oeuvres to dinner party entrees and show-stopping desserts, FreshDirect has the essentials to keep things stress-free for anyone hosting this season. Order online or via their app to shop your go-to groceries.

Whether you’re throwing a potluck, gathering for carols, decorating cookies, or pulling out all the stops for the holiday party to end all holiday parties, no celebration is complete without a well-executed grazing board. While I love snacks of all varieties, a grazing board isn’t just about throwing some cheese on a platter and calling it a day. There’s an art to putting them together in a way that’s cohesive, suits everyone’s dietary needs, and of course, looks Instagramable. This may seem like many elements to consider, but fear not, by starting with an online order from FreshDirect you’ve taken out half the work.

Holiday Linens Inspired by a 1930s Design Icon, Exclusively at Food52

In the 1930s, a time when America’s decorative arts movement was dominated by male designers, self-taught artist Marguerita Mergentime blazed a trail for herself as an innovator who introduced bold patterns to American homes. Though she designed many household items—flatware, glassware, china, and more—she is best known for her printed fabrics that blend folk art with asymmetrical or typographical touches. Her table linens were quite literally conversation starters—just take a peek at her “Food for Thought” tablecloth, featured in the Museum of Modern Art’s online collection.

Today, Marguerita’s vision feels just as fresh as it did then—which is why we’re so excited to announce the launch of our exclusive Food52 Mergentime Collection. In collaboration with Marguerita’s granddaughter, Virginia Bayer, who helped bring the designer’s extensive archive to life, we curated a selection of table linens, dish towels, and tree skirts that revive Marguerita’s bold designs. Just in time for the holidays, her iconic patterns will be the talk of your holiday table and home. Here are all the festive finds in our Mergentime collection, perfect for giving and getting.

12 Advent Calendars for This Year’s Christmas Countdown

If you celebrate Christmas, you know the countdown unofficially begins sometime during that stretch between Halloween and Thanksgiving. The pumpkins and gourds find their way off of the mantle and front porch and are slowly replaced with small Christma…

Part of the fun that comes with counting down to Christmas is having an advent calendar to surprise you with treats every day of December leading up to the 25th. Just decide the kind of surprise you'd like to have—do you want chocolates? Tea? Gummy candies?—and make sure you have it in your hands before the first of December. Then, each day, open the slot with the corresponding number to find what the calendar has in store. (It's like a pre-Christmas gift warmup, if you ask us!) And as we inch closer to the holiday, it's time to choose the calendar for you.