ReadyMade: Instructions for everyday life

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Lineup: April/May 2010

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Editor’s Letter: Welcome to our food issue where mealtime is a project and recipes are the instruction manual.

Step One:Recipes are good, but illustrated ones are defintely better: Tara Hogan draws her Lemon Ginger Hot Tea.

Reply All: Home fix-it tips, reader projects, tweeps, and old-fashioned snail mail straight from you to us.

Ready, Set, Go: Floaty shirts, lunch bags, and a nearly instant house will have you feeling spring fever.

HDYGTFAJ: Illustrator, professor, and designer Kate Bingaman-Burt shares the secrets of her success.

Place Setting: A Denver, Colorado, seamstress proves there’s more to the city than mountains and ski sweaters.

Small Spaces: Infuse your kitchen with the 3Rs by making wine crate cabinets.

To Do List: At Home: Make a mini jewelry box, stitch a credit card guard, and start your seeds.

Why It’s Worth It: Lisa Neimeth’s handmade clay dinnerware has heirloom written all over it.

Rekindle: Unique engagement photos that show the untraditional love.

Edible Adventure: Tarts Rustic, sweet, pudding-filled, or mini, tarts are the new cupcake.

To Do List: In the Kitchen: Try an offset spatula, make your own trail bars, and sip one of four types of aperitivos.

Tech Talk: James Nestor is playing Droid versus iPhone. May the fastest, most seamless platform win.

Projects: Food: Forage, ferment, and create your way to an Italian feast for friends, complete with crème fraîche ice cream.

Texas Two-Step: Unexpected pops of color radiate throughout the Dallas home of Jeff Barfoot and Shay Ometz of bee things.

The New Crew: Five wunder-designers swap stories and share projects to celebrate the start of two major NYC design shows.

MacGyver: Rescued ribbons join forces to make a great market tote. Next up: neckties.



On the Cover: Ginger Ricotta Tart with Rhubarb and Strawberry Jam, page 38