Cool Tools in the Kitchen

Kevin Kelly · Steven Leckart

Jan 2012 · "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

About this ebook

Cool tools really work. A cool tool can be any tried-and-true book, gadget, software, video, map, hardware, material, or website. The reviews in this book were written by those of us who have actually used the tool and others like it. We only review things--old or new--that we like and ignore the rest.

This is a curated collection of the best cool tools for the Kitchen. It is not intended as a shopping list or checklist. Consider this a jumping-off point for thinking and re-thinking about what’s possible in your kitchen. Some kitchens can certainly operate with fewer and/or different tools; some might require more. But everything we’ve included here is well worth knowing about.

About the author

Kevin Kelly is Senior Maverick at Wired magazine. He co-founded Wired in 1993, and served as its Executive Editor from its inception until 1999. He has just finished a book for Viking/Penguin called "What Technology Wants," published October 18, 2010. He is also editor and publisher of the Cool Tools website, which gets half a million unique visitors per month. From 1984-1990 Kelly was publisher and editor of the Whole Earth Review, a journal of unorthodox technical news. He co-founded the ongoing Hackers' Conference, and was involved with the launch of the WELL, a pioneering online service started in 1985. He authored the best-selling New Rules for the New Economy and the classic book on decentralized emergent systems, Out of Control.

A correspondent at Wired, Steven Leckart has written for The New York Times, Men's Journal, Maxim, WSJ, and TheAtlantic.com, among other publications. He's also a writer-at-large for Pop-Up Magazine, a live periodical. From 2007-2009, he edited Kevin Kelly's Cool Tools. While attending UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism, Steven was Chris Anderson's writing assistant on The Long Tail. He lives in San Francisco.