The Kitchn gives us a quick guide to every herb and spice in the cupboard!

Ted Prize 2010 goes to Jamie Oliver!!! His wish? “I wish for your help to create a strong, sustainable movement to educate every child about food, inspire families to cook again and empower people everywhere to fight obesity.”

Slash/Food explores the world of Pop Up Restaurants in San Francisco that let chefs take chances and experience what it's like to have their own restaurant... for a few nights!

On valentine's delights, Brownies For Dinner creates heart shaped chocolate and sprinkles covered whoopie pies ~ i had no idea "Whoopie pies are an Amish tradition, originally called hucklebucks."

The infamous El Bulli of molecular mixologist master, Ferran Adrià, will be closing! Luckily its only temporary so he can focus on more experimentation and innovation in the food space!

Prepara pop savers ~ cute idea with a silicon lid that can be easily popped open or closed ~ nicer than leaving things totally exposed on the counter!

Canevale season!!! Bell'almiento shows us how to make delicious powdered sugared Crostoli!

Souvlaki For The Soul makes a mouth watering P.L.T - Prawn, Lettuce, and Tomato roll ~ served up with a cold beer!

Zipper Mug!

Pancake Day, The British Larder Way! Raspberry, Lime and Coconut Pancakes ~ With just a dash of color, and the perfect dribble of syrup, i love the plating!

'Sweet Treats', an upcoming typographical cookbook by Amanda Woodward, great preview on issuu.

Hazelnut Chocolate Truffles from the Purple Foodie look divine! Lovely pics of the ingredients so perfectly laid out in rows...

MENU ~ the carafe with smart lid designed by Jakob Wagner

Picked up these Jenny Jurnelius pot holders ~ love that they fit my not so huge hands perfectly and you can just flip it inside out to work for the other hand!

DIY Smores Kits! Adorable project ~ looks delicious and such nice simple packaging

Norwegian interest group Brød & Korn (Bread & Grain) has a beautiful and playful profile based on a font made out of bread. Design by Commando Group.

Chocolate Company's hotchocspoons look so fun!

Polka Dot Cookies has adorable cameo silhouette mini cookies!

Genius! Russian Doll measuring cups ~ what kitchen couldn't use these?

Luxirare presents us with lollipop-pies! Ridiculously cute, and I bet they taste really good too.

A look at the Bodum 2009 catalog ~ fun, cheeky typography ~ double walled porcelain! planters! baguette holders! glass stovetop kettles! battery operated pepper grinders! and more...

From the 'Go Slow Cafe' in 'Pioneers of Change' on Governors Island, NYC in which elderly people prepare and serve food slowly. In the above plate, local food is served in bigger portions than imported food.

Juice cocktails turned into beautyful caviar pearls on parfait!

Ping is a Portland restaurant with good service, fast healthy food, all presented with unassuming style. Pok Pok owner, Andy Ricker collaborated with John Jay, one of the leading strategists at the advertising agency Wieden + Kennedy.

Pasta Sauna - Inspired by the Italian Futurist Cookbook, which condemned pasta as a food that made humans lethargic and overweight, Dutch “eating-designer” Marije Vogelzang uses the steam from boiling pasta to create a sauna.

Apostrophe orange peeler by gabriele chiave for alessi - designed by gabriele chiave

Peeking inside LA's Grilled Cheese Truck ~ and a look at their truck, branding, and the food itself (from tomato soup shots to dessert grilled nutella/marshmallow/banana)

Mobius Bagel! Wow. Precise directions on how to cut your bagel... "Mathematically Correct Breakfast:
How to Slice a Bagel into Two Linked Halves" by George W. Hart

Brain Stream (they have the awesome brain sperm logo) Cregg & Cregg egg decapitators ~ this pair is beautifully packaged in black and white with playful illustrations.

Artisan du Chocolat London's Christmas Snow Globes & Winter Chocolate Bird Houses! Shake the Christmas Snow Globes and you can hear the caramel, cocoa nibs & biscuit bits inside waiting to be eaten... yummy.

Brain Stream Al Dente ~ throw this mafioso in with your pasta and at 7min he sings Triumphal March of Aida At 9 minutes Prisoners' Chorus of Nabucco At 11 minutes La Donna è Mobile from Rigoletto!

Happy Valentine's Day ~ Bakerella goes vintage valentines on cookies with the super easy edible ink on frosting sheets that you simply stick in the printer!

tea inspirations: large heart ~ beautiful packaging design

Mushroom foraging! Love these pics ~ and amazing how many they collected up!

Fantastic interview of Brooklyn knife maker Joel Bukiewicz of CUT Brooklyn

Um...Yum Snail Caviar anyone? At the Modern in NYC

Whitney Smith Pottery. Adorable pottery with birds. Plus she makes them in many colors!

FoodPod! From Fusion Brands ~ this silicon pod can hold just about anything you want to boil, blanch, steam, drain... and you can just dunk it into the pot ~ retrieve it with its handle! See the pics!

The ROBERT restaurant has opened atop the Museum of Arts and Design in New York City.

The Heinz Ketchup packet gets a new look and a complete packaging overhaul. "The new Heinz Dip & Squeeze product marks"first ketchup packet makeover for the foodservice industry in 42 years."

CAKED LA cake-pops! The cutest little cakes on a lollipop stick! It is a whole cake in one bite! The frosting is actually already included in the cake 'ball' and then enrobed in chocolate/candy coatings. Yummy!

Wow, Our Best Bites has the most adorable how to on making mini pies in a JAR!

Macallan + W Los Angeles + NOTCOT ~ a fun little get together, first time playing host... and we even got to sip Macallan 57! More interestingly, see the social media component with their favorite, twitter.

The first ever jars of Marmite XO have been sent out to 'inner-circle' members of the Marmarati - each jar hand signed by Lord Marmarati himself.