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In a perfect world, I wouldn’t mind chopping onions. I would zen out and enjoy the task, my mind serene and eyes not streaked with tears. Or, even more perfectly, I’d have a giant kitchen with room for food processors in assorted sizes, ready for dice jobs both large and small.

As it is, I have a tiny kitchen that requires Jenga-like maneuvering on the part of both humans (my roommate and me) and supplies. I don’t have room for many devices and the ones I have are often a pain to lug out. Also, I hate chopping onions. I cry uncontrollably and there is nothing zen about it.

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Not heading to the Big Easy for the celebration and revelry of Mardi Gras? Thankfully it’s quite easy to enjoy the festivities at home, and as with so many occasions there is no better way to do it than with some iconic and inspired New Orleans cuisine. Cue up some jazz, stir up a drink (like a French 75 or a hurricane), and dig into one of these NOLA classics to get your fill of Mardi Gras at home.

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There’s a reason IKEA cabinets are such a popular choice for new kitchens: they’re incredibly affordable. The cabinets are also quite versatile, lending themselves to all kinds of configurations and finishes, some of which might not look anything like anything you’ve seen in their catalog.

Here are 10 of our favorite IKEA kitchens, in envelope-pushing styles and configurations that might have you reconsidering your next kitchen remodel.

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There’s nothing quite like being massively pregnant and waking up in the middle of the night with an overwhelming desire to eat something really weird. Pickles and ice cream might be the most traditional pregnancy cravings, but Fixer Upper star Joanna Gaines uses her pickles to age copper and apparently wakes up at night with an overwhelming desire to eat a smorgasbord of Fruity Pebbles and pimento cheese.

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The Korean kitchen is not like the American kitchen. For starters, at any given time you’ll have to look down toward the floor to find the mistress of the Korean kitchen, who may be crouching or sitting on the floor with a giant vat of vegetables, pouring in gochugaru, a ground red chile pepper spice, and massaging it into the veggies with glove-clad hands. Secondly, with the Korean cuisine come different preservation methods and different aromas — thus, a completely different tool set from the traditional American kitchen most of my friends grew up with.

And so in the spirit of exploration, here are the three things nearly all Korean kitchens have.

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Millions of people use Reddit every day, and that means the site is an absolute goldmine for insider information. Some of the site’s most popular topics are AMA threads — short for Ask Me Anything — by experts in topics like swimming pool maintenance or dog grooming. And with so many people chatting without using their real names, some secrets are bound to come out. That’s why everybody took notice when a recent thread hit the front page asking, “What are some company secrets you can now reveal since you don’t work for the company anymore?”

That Reddit thread has more than 26,000 comments, and many of them are from people claiming to be current and former employees of companies everybody has heard of, like Whole Foods, Starbucks, and Trader Joe’s.

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Celebrating Valentine’s Day over breakfast can be a special thing. Even if you’re getting the kids ready for school or heading out at dawn for an early work meeting, a special breakfast can still happen. You can make it even more special if lingering is possible!

So instead of going out to dinner, start with a rosé Champagne cocktail and whip up something special like a roasted radish and herbed ricotta omelet. Or maybe it’s just a really gorgeous piece of avocado toast. The point is to make a little fuss over breakfast. It’s a charming way to sweeten your day.

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Recently a thread on Reddit asked users to share what products are identical to a brand name, but with a different label. The most surprising thing to come out of this conversation, however, was when a user claiming to be a Costco food court employee said that the frozen chicken bakes sold in the Costco warehouse are nothing like the famous chicken bakes at the Costco food court.

If you’ve ever tried the famous chicken bakes at the Costco food court, you know what a big deal this is.

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With its promise to deliver the crispy goodness of fried food, using at most a couple of tablespoons of oil, the air fryer sounds like a french fry–lover’s dream. What exactly is an air fryer, though? Basically, it’s an odd-shaped countertop convection oven that circulates air around food. It takes up a lot of countertop space and doesn’t come cheap, with models ranging from $70 to $300.

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