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SERENDIPITY: WINE & CHEESE ACCESSORIES SEE PAGE 20 GADGET OF THE MONTH: BELLA TAVOLA CLICK 2 COOK SEE PAGE 23 PRODUCT REVIEW: BELLINI INTELLI KITCHEN MASTER SEE PAGE 14 H o u s e w a r e s R e v i e w KITCHENWARE NEWS S E R V I N G K I T C H E N W A R E, H O M E D E C O R A N D G I F T W A R E M A R K E T S V O L U M E 1 9 , N U M B E R 1 0 RETAILING FEATURE n Mason Jars PAGE 9 SMALL ELECTRICS n Mixers for Every Need and Budget PAGE 12 PRODUCT REVIEW n Bellini Intelli Kitchen Master PAGE 14 THE KNIFE RACK n Kyocera Professional Chef's Knife PAGE 18 SERENDIPITY n Wine and Cheese Accessories PAGE 20 GOURMET GOODIES n barkTHINS PAGE 22 TRADESHOW CALENDAR n PAGE 23 News ..............................................3 Ad Index .......................................23 www.kitchenwarenews.com VOLUME 20, NUMBER 10 OCTOBER 2014 n $7.00 BY AMBER GALLEGOS While mom or dad is shopping for that new marinade injector to make dinner tonight, they might just want to pick up a kid-sized whisk for junior to keep busy and feel like he or she is helping as that meal cooks. Kitchenwares made especially for children let them be a part of the cooking process while teaching and building confidence at the same time; and there are BY LORRIE BAUMANN Teresa Adams-Tomka sells kitchenware and a few gift items in her 3,000 square foot store in Des Moines, Iowa's East Village, and when I met her, she was just back f rom a three-day absence to ride with Team Stopalot in RAGBRAI, an annual bike ride Kitchen Collage: A Culture of Service to the Community Continued on PAGE 6 Continued on PAGE 10 Continued on PAGE 11 Continued on PAGE 16 across the width of Iowa that draws thousands of cyclists to the state each year, and she was just about to make cookies in the store's demonstration kitchen. "It's just the day to make cookies today," she said when she greeted me. Des Moines' East Village is part of the city's urban center, a revitalizing neighborhood also populated by a growing number of boutique retailers and art galleries, a few independent restaurateurs and a hotel project that's under construction. The shop, at 430 East Locust Street, is within walking distance of the building that houses the World Food Prize Foundation, which honors the achievements of individuals who have advanced human development by improving the quality, quantity or availability BY LORRIE BAUMANN Kati Mora, 29-year-old owner of The Plate Boutique in Mount Pleasant, Michigan, is on a mission to help people improve their diets by becoming more comfortable in their own kitchens. For the past two years, this Registered Dietician has been ser ving up advice on nutritious eating both f rom a popular nutrition website and her brick and mortar store in a small The Plate Boutique: Better Nutrition with Fun Gadgets Metallics Dress the Table for Home Entertaining Bring Kids Into the Kitchen with the Right Tools college town in Michigan's Lower Peninsula. Mount Pleasant is a community of 26,000 full-time residents and is the home of Central Michigan University, two regional health and hospital centers, Mid-Michigan Community College and The Plate Boutique. "Our primary mission and goal with the Plate Boutique is to help people eat healthier by spending more time in their kitchens. People need to go into their kitchens and find foods that they 're comfortable with, because if they don't, they don't find foods they love," Mora says. plenty of products made just for kids in the kitchen. Children as young as two or three years old want to help in the kitchen and can actually do so. Playful Chef makes cooking kits for children starting at age three. Even a child between the ages of one and two can do something as simple as helping to decorate a gingerbread house during the holidays. "As they get older, baking is great because they learn their math, they learn to read recipes, and no matter what age, baking and decorating in the kitchen definitely builds self- confidence," said Angie Thayer, Wilton's Celebration Expert. Playful Chef offers Deluxe Cooking Kits and Baking Sets specially designed for children. The kits feature an array of tools that are scaled down to fit kids' hands and each kit includes age appropriate recipes that walk them through the steps f rom prep to finish, as well as safety tips and educational food facts. All of the tools are color-coded to coordinate BY AMBER GALLEGOS Luxe metallic accent pieces have a strong presence in this year's fall tabletop collections. The new La Cité Collection from Rosanna features 24 karat gold geometric designs on top of clear glasses and white rounded square plates, as well as other matching tabletop pieces like salt and pepper shakers, a pitcher, lidded canisters, and nesting trays that are all inspired by the 1960s. Mixing in a few of these pieces with an existing classic white set of porcelain dishes is a quick and easy way to update a tablescape and give it a modern look reflective of current trends without having to completely overhaul ever y piece, says Rosanna Bowles, CEO and Head of Design at Rosanna Inc. "Let's say you have a plain set of white dishes, which I always recommend to everybody, even if you don't have white dishes you can get ver y inexpensive white dinner plates and then just build f rom that," says Bowles. " You can change your look so easily by layering in salad plates, layering in great flatware, and wonderful accessories for the table." Also playing on the popularity of metallics is Tom Dixon with the PLUM series of copper barware accents. The matching tongs, cocktail shaker and ice bucket have a modern futuristic appearance that will quietly become the stars of any table. The items incorporate the luxe metallic trend for fall as

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