What's in Store

This week, we found some great ways to prepare for Thanksgiving that make it easy for the host:

Splendora recommends The Art of Simple Food by Alice Waters as a “what to gobble.” Concur with her outspoken philosophy on food or not, no one can deny that she is one of the most influential figures in the culinary world and has been for the past thirty years. The latest cookbook from the kitchens of Chez Panisse is The Art of Simple Food, a collection of recipes which, as the title suggests, aren’t complicated, and which emphasize the importance of seasonal, local ingredients. It appears that Waters’ “delicious revolution” continues to blaze ahead with vigor.

Delight gives a helpful hint on using the Slipper Genie and its cousin, the Fuzzy Wuzzy Microfiber mitt, as ways to slip and slide to a clean house. Slipping and sliding are among our favorite pastimes - skiing, sledding, skating, moonwalking and, lest we forget, the seminal toy of summer fun, the Slip N’ Slide. Now with a little help from these amazing slippers, you can keep your floors and furniture looking beautiful, and get some exercise while you’re at it! Just slide on the slippers and mitt and slide your way around the house.

Productdose raves about the Digital Wine Cooler and Warmer. The beauty of this product is that it chills TWO wine bottles at once. Usually people drink with others, so having the capability to exactly control the temperature of two bottles of wine at a time, using neither water nor ice, is a great convenience.

Stylehive gobbles about using more than just a big sharp knife and touts the following cool kitchen tools and gadgets to use this Turkey Day:
• Talking meat thermometer
• Turkey lifter and roasting rack
• Nordicware ‘great pumpkin’ cake pan
• Le Creuset petite pumpkin covered casserole

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This week we found cool trends and innovative products for Back-to-School:

Engadget writes about changes to SanDisk’s Sansa media players in order to attract the back-to-school masses. Perhaps the biggest change comes to the company’s WiFi-equipped Sansa Connect, which retains all the same specs but gets a full hundred dollars knocked off its price tag. The other refresh comes to the company’s Sansa Shaker line, which gets a new 1GB model that’ll retail for an average of $50. Of course, while SanDisk is pitching this as a back-to-school promotion, there’s nothing to stop anyone from taking advantage of it for themselves.

Gizmodo goes crazy over Safe Books Ballistic Bookbag, which is actually bullet-proof! These backpacks are claimed to offer as much protection from a shooting as police armor and are aimed to protect kids from all of the 21st century dangers schooling entails.

The Budget Fashionista highlights trends from Paypal’s recent back-to-school survey on the attitudes and thoughts of parents and kids regarding Back-to-School shopping and fashion. Check out these interesting findings:

• - 9 out of 10 high school students expect their parents to pay for most, if not all of their back to school purchases.
• - Kids expect their parents to spend on average $350 on back to school clothing, while parents expect to spend around $250.
• - Girls take their style cues from traditional pop style icons like Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan, the Olsen twins while boys take their style cues from celebrities they want to hang out with like P Diddy, Justin Timberlake and Jack Black.
• - Also, while boys think baggy jeans are cool, parents and, most importantly, girls don’t think they are appropriate.

FabSugar raves about fall jackets! There are so many different styles and colors one can work with. So, check out the fresh back-to-school outerware options.

SheFinds alerts us about back-to-school deals at eBags. Get an extra 10%-off plus free shipping on orders of $35 or more. Find modern, functional laptop backpacks, messenger bags in funky patterns (they make a great weekend carry-all), and sleek totes for work. The sale ends on 8/26.

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