MAKE CAKE, NOT WAR For the cook who wants to make a statement at the dinner table, this 9-inch silicone bake pan (which can also serve as a gelatin or ice mold) definitely fits the political moment. Not surprisingly, it comes with a recipe for a tie-dye cake.
On the shelf: Cake statement
December 16, 2009 at 10:51PM
$25, Mill City Museum gift shop, 704 S. 2nd St., Mpls., 612-341-7555.
STICK TO YOUR FRIDGE Finally, the Magnetic Poetry people have a box of food words so we can write a sonnet or haiku on the refrigerator. Read my magnets: I am hungry. Feed me.
$12.95, Mill City Museum gift shop, 704 S. 2nd St., Mpls., 612-341-7555.
HIGH FIVE Give your drink a hand with a set of five stirrers.
$9.99, Kitchen Window, 3001 Hennepin Av. S. (Calhoun Square), Mpls., 612-824-4417.
LEE SVITAK DEAN
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