Suzanne Wiley

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Suzanne Wiley

Martha Stewart's advice for home design, care, and cooking have helped many create comforting spaces for themselves over the past decades. After working on Wall Street, Stewart moved into catering, which grew into the home and food media empire that you see today. It's safe to say that Stewart has been a major force in changing our concepts of what a kitchen should include.

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Suzanne Wiley

Kitchen trends come and go, but some come back again and again. Each re-appearance of a trend is a little different than before because people aren't just re-creating old styles; they're adding contemporary twists that make these older trends look almost new. For the past couple of years, trends from the 1990s have made their way back into homes -- especially the kitchen -- and this should be cause for celebration.

3 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Suzanne Wiley

If you want cooking advice that focuses on making things simple and realistic, you turn to Ina Garten. The same goes for advice about dinner parties and entertaining. Garten has repeatedly centered simplicity and ease whenever she's shown how to set a table, with "How easy is that?" becoming one of her best-known catchphrases. This is a person who advocates for store-bought over homemade if the store-bought version is perfectly tasty and the homemade version is arduous and exhausting.

3 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Suzanne Wiley

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Sumac is a spice that has been gaining wider visibility over the past couple of decades. It's long been very popular in Mediterranean and Middle Eastern cooking, and indigenous populations in North America have used the berries for centuries as well. Luckily for home cooks, it's also one of the easier spices to use, as well as one of the more versatile, pairing well with everything from meat to fruit salads.

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Suzanne Wiley

Frozen dinners have long graced (or littered, depending on what you think of them) tables and TV trays in U.S. homes, and sometimes it seems like the brands you buy now have been around forever. But the frozen-food industry is competitive, and several brands have entered the market and dropped out over the years. Yet other brands really are still around after all these decades, but some of the specific dinners the brands used to sell are long gone.