Dumplings Around the World Tote Bag

It has been a little quiet around these parts lately, but I'm happy to finally announce something exciting that had been in the works for months.

For the past few holiday seasons, I've looked high and low for food-related gifts for my food-loving friends and family. It was easy to find paper products and apparel printed with fruits and vegetables, but I couldn't for the life of me find goods that celebrated favorite foods from around the world. Dumplings. Ramen. Laksa. Tacos. Borscht. Banh mi. Food that I and a ton of people I know are wildy passionate about.

So I decided to launch a new shop call Plate & Pencil with designs that were influenced by our favorite international cuisines. The first of what will be many products is this Dumplings Around the World tote bag. It was really fun to get back into doing art and design work for the first time since before culinary school, and at the same time challenging to source quality materials from good companies. I'm happy to have found a tote bag manufacturer that follows international Fair Labor and Fair Wage practices as well as great local screen printer for printing the designs. 

We just launched in time for the holiday season, so come by to check out the goods for yourself or your global food-loving friends and family members! And as a launch special for Appetite for China readers, we're doing free shipping within the U.S. on all items now through Thursday with code DUMPLINGLOVE. :)

We're adding products all week long so stop by for a peek!

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Cookies from Around the World Recipe Kit!

Remember my Japanese green tea cookie post from two weeks ago that I was working on as part of an upcoming cookie recipe kit? Well, I’m happy to report that after extensive recipe testing (and arduous amounts of taste testing!) my friends at GrubKit and I finally launched our Cookies from Around the World kit.

The kit features ingredients for baking cookies from four countries around the world:

Italian Cranberry and Pistachio BiscottiJapanese Green Tea Shortbread CookiesMexican Hot Chocolate CookiesGerman Gingerbread Cookies (Lebkuchen)

The cookies in the kit are both from traditional recipes and with inventive modern takes. All the specialty dry ingredients are included in the box, so no need to run out and purchase big packs of ingredients like matcha powder, vanilla beans, and crystallized ginger just for one baking project. We designed the kit with the holidays in mind, as an ideal gift for novice bakers, but you can also invite friends and family over for a cookie baking party or bake them one recipe at at time at your leisure.

Come on over to GrubKit for a peek!

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