News ..............................................5
Ad Index .......................................22
GENERAL NEWS
gia Awards 5
FOODIES FOCUS
Sustainability 15
THE PANTRY
Lake Champlain
Chocolates
19
THE KNIFE RACK
Carter Cutlery 21
GADGET OF
THE MONTH
Zyliss Pepper Corer 22
TRADESHOW
CALENDAR
22
VOLUME 24, NUMBER 4
APRIL 2018
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IHA Seeks
to Inspire
Consumers
to Buy
BY LORRIE BAUMANN
The International Housewares
Association is taking another big
step towards building the
housewares market by
encouraging consumers to buy
more kitchenware and
housewares products with a new
print magazine called The
Inspired Home Journal. The first
issue of the magazine was
distributed at this year's
International Home +
Housewares Show and is also
available to consumers who visit
TheInspiredHome.com, the
association's consumer-facing
website, where it's f ree if the
consumer pays for the cost of
mailing it. The digital version is
available at
TheInspiredHome.com/Journal,
and the print magazine will
eventually also be distributed on
newsstands and bookstores
around the country.
" We are reaching out to
consumers directly. It's to
encourage the consumer, to
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Fascinating
Finds from
Around the
World at
IH+HS
BY
ROBIN MATHER
More than 2,200 exhibitors and
vendors filled Chicago's
McCormick Place for this year's
International Home and
Housewares Show. These were
some of the most intriguing
things we found in the three
exhibit halls.
Kitchen Concepts introduced
Butterie, a clever all-in-one butter
dish with an attached flip-top lid
to contain butter smears. Joelle
Mertzel
invented Butterie when
she learned that butter doesn't
need to be ref rigerated, she says,
and that it will keep for several
weeks at room temperature
without spoiling. Made f rom
shatterproof, BPA-f ree plastic,
the butter dish disassembles easily
and is dishwasher and microwave
safe. Butter does have to be
protected f rom odors, however,
which the attached lid
accomplishes. Butterie can hold
two sticks or a half-pound block
www.kitchenwarenews.com
KITCHENWARE
NEWS
&
Housewares
Review
Le Souk Céramique Brings Fair Trade
to Artisanal Tunisian Stoneware
Grilling The Expert at All
Things Barbecue
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