A new cookbook seeks to arm home cooks with strategies, tips and recipes that help get home-cooked dinners on the table in the midst of a busy life. It lists the Top 10 Challenges women face with cooking and offers doable steps to take and strategies to try, as well as over 150 recipes.

Author Sally Kuzemchak checked in with our Chef/Owner Shelley Young about kitchen gear that can assist in getting get the job done. Check out her list of must-have kitchen essentials in Chapter 2! $24.95.

Finding a pearl in an oyster may be rare, but just eating the briny bivalve mollusk is enough to make most people happy. You have an excuse to celebrate the oyster on National Oyster Day coming up on August 5th.  

 

Did you know?  

• Nearly two billion pounds of oysters are eaten each year.
• There are over 100 species of oysters.
• One oyster can filter over 50 gallons of water a day.
• The largest oyster-producing body of water is located on Chesapeake Bay. Our Bailey Phillips is from that area (and is soon moving back!) and takes a look at how oyster farming works in her blog.

Shucking oysters gets even easier with the Shucker Paddy. This distinctively shaped oyster knife (designed by the world's fastest oyster shucker) makes it easy to pop open oysters with less pressure than traditional knives. $19.95. Watch it in action.  

 

Art Of Oystering

 

 

Oysters and beer are a pairing made in heaven. Enjoy your brew in a Govino Beer Glass without worrying about breakage. The plastic glass reflects a beer's color and projects its aromatics, much like crystal. $12.95. 

 

All of our retail products are chef tested and approved, but now it's your turn to put them to the test. Both of our stores will feature interactive "test it" stations during the month of August. From peelers to graters to herb scissors, you can test it before you buy it.

Hit the pavement early to shop the best selection of clearance merchandise at our Sidewalk Sale next month.