We had some pals for dinner this weekend, so I received an schooling through which serving items I don’t have, or don’t have sufficient of, or want in higher variations. The cobbler’s kids haven’t any sneakers. And the home-company founder’s kids haven’t any tumblers, not sufficient dinner plates, only a handful of bowls, and a dearth of votive holders.

Right here’s my want listing:

Thanksgiving is a month away, so should you’re having folks over, now could be the time to examine your cabinets!

Patricia Wells, the previous meals critic for the Worldwide Herald Tribune and writer of the seminal books The Meals Lover’s Information To Paris and Bistro Cooking, didn’t have this drawback. Over the previous few a long time, she collected an egg-shaped salt shaker, a cut-glass orange juice pitcher, a wicker market trolley, a folding slicing board, and dozens of different residence and kitchen items that crammed the cupboards, armoires, and kitchen of Chanteduc, the Provencal farmhouse she shares together with her husband Walter Wells, former Government Editor of the IHT.

Wells, who has each glorious fashion and an experience in French tableware, has determined to downsize her assortment. She posted the primary batch earlier this 12 months and a brand new spherical will go on sale at 11:30 am EST on November 16. Meals52 is getting the primary peek on the catalog—which is rather more than a bunch of photographs and descriptions, however an totally charming and kooky love letter to her life in France, full with a music written for her by Todd Murray, movies of her teetering on a purple metallic swing or chatting with Walter about strawberries, and photographs of her with legends like Julia Youngster.

Take a look at the incredible catalog right here.

Newbie Ceramics, which makes sculptural items—from mirrors to Seussian vases—is our featured maker for November.

Over the weekend, we launched a Simmering Pot Recipe that makes your house scent like an apple orchard (minus the screaming youngsters and dirt!). Additional factors should you make the recipe in our Pumpkin Cocotte.

My toast-topper of the second: Salty Speculoos Biscuit Unfold. Who conceives of those wonders? Thanks, you spread-making hedonists!

In our collection, Let Me Present You, Stefan taught us the whole lot we would have liked to know concerning the 4 sorts of salt.

Somebody on Instagram requested me what my favourite recipes are from A New Manner To Dinner, a e book Merrill and I wrote a couple of years again. One in every of them is Merrill’s In a single day Roast Pork. One other is her Applesauce Cake with Caramel Icing. These recipes have been designed for this fall climate, so put them within the queue, and order the e book should you so please.

Lastly—mark your calendars—our present guides go dwell this Friday! And they’re all treats and no tips. Joyful Halloween!

Amanda