Mary Frances Knapp

1 day ago | eater.com | Mary Frances Knapp

Eater Staff A dining chair can make or break a meal for me. That isn’t to say that all of my dining chairs have been top-tier examples of swish Scandinavian design; many have been rare curb finds, shoddy hand-me-down chairs, or just straight up floor poufs. The best dining chairs, however, should inspire a near-subconscious level relaxation. Sometimes, they can even stack and fold themselves away.

2 days ago | eater.com | Mary Frances Knapp

Eventbrite It feels fair to say that Antoni Porowski never imagined himself as the host of a cheese rave. And yet, as I soaked up the fromage-themed party he hosted last Thursday night in Bushwick with Eventbrite, it somehow felt cosmically correct to watch an illuminated wheel of Parmesan spin on a giant plinth above a group of people with Ratatouille headgear while a man quietly slid me a dime bag of crumbled Cheddar. Still, I found myself wondering — how did we get here?

5 days ago | eater.com | Mary Frances Knapp

Eater Staff It’s very easy for me to feel overwhelmed when I’m shopping for food-related gifts online — and even easier to distract myself with side quests. The simple task of finding a Mother’s Day gift, for example, can turn into an hours-long debate between an increasingly complex amount of options, including plenty of DIY baked goods that are very cool (see: the Goldbelly-featured cereal cake bowl) but would definitely make my mother scratch her head.

6 days ago | eater.com | Mary Frances Knapp

Eater Staff This is a week of personality-forward deals. Every week, we give you the goods; last week’s bounty included a sitewide sale at Graza (we’re eyeing that new gold-packaged high-heat cooking spray), and deals on martini-olive- and cherry-embroidered cocktail napkins from Anthropologie. In short, we live for the kinds of items that scream (or perhaps yodel) “I care about taste” — ideally, in between bites of millefeuille or something with truffle oil.

1 week ago | eater.com | Mary Frances Knapp

Eater Staff When it comes to essential kitchen tools, there are wants and then there are needs; I may want these Wolverine-esque meat shredders, but I need a high-quality chef’s knife in my life. Everything from overripe tomatoes to acorn squash become finger hazards when I settle for a dull blade, but thankfully, there are many brands out there making quality, super-sharp knives, from newcomers like Material Kitchen to trustworthy legacy brands like Zwilling.