In This Issue

Issue 19: The Food Issue

FEATURES

1. THE GRUB GENERATION

   Can the young and politically restless save the world through food? Supper clubs with a conscience are cropping up across the nation with the aim of doing exactly that. Plus: Tips for how to start your own inner dinner circle.
   by Heather Bourbeau

2. KITCHEN CONFIDENTIAL

   We asked six of the country's top chefs to reveal their secrets for how to design a professional-grade home setup. (Hint: It's all about racks and iPods.)

3. MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE

   Using ingredients like cardamom and chocolate, perfumer Yosh Han creates customized, cuisine-inspired scents. Plus: Recipes for mixing your own fragrances.
   by Jennifer Kahn

4. HARDWARE THAT COOKS

   The garage meets the galley in this primer on using common tools to perform miracles in the kitchen. Putty- knifed chocolate curls, anyone?
   by Susan Breitkopf

DEPARTMENTS

5. RE-VIEW

   Engineers invade the kitchen, grocery lists from around the world, cuisine art, and maggots for dinner. Plus: the best new music and books

6. RE-MAKE: MONKEY SEE MONKEY DO

   Make sushi plates, a Rolodex recipe holder, baby cakes, and an oil-and-vinegar set

7. RE-COVER

   Spruce up an ugly fridge with smooth stainless steel, or convert an out-of-use shelf into a hanging pot rack

8. RE-WIRE

   Hang a wine-glass chandelier

9. RE-STYLE

   How to use diner-style restaurant supplies in your home

10. RE-MIX

    Pour yourself a concrete tabletop

11. RE-TAIL

    For foodies: a molded plywood serving tray, olive dish, mortar and pestle, eggs that bloom, and Thomas Paul plates. Plus: the best knives, pots, and blenders that money can buy

12. HDYGTFAJ?

    Q&A with New York Times food writer Amanda Hesser

13. STEP 1

    Fruit foragers, plastic Japanese food, and free-range farm pioneers

14. READY-WHIP

    Power tools invade the kitchen, cooking crib sheet, and the farmers' Thanksgiving menu

15. HOT TODDY

    Bake Auntie Oldham's devilishly good sugar cookies

16. MARTHA LIVES

    Cut out creepy cat X-rays for All Hallow's Eve

17. ALREADYMADE

    Mount a gravity-defying wine rack

18. BUYER'S GUIDE / RE_SOURCE

    Where to get it

19. MACGYVER

    Winning entry: Cork Rug. Next up: film negatives

20. END GAME

    Can't-believe-it's-better culinary mash-ups