For the Couple Who Actually Cooks

Where These Come From

Holland Bowl Mill is the last remaining bowl mill in the United States. They’ve been making wood products in Holland, Michigan since 1926. Each cherry live edge board is unique because of the natural edge — no two pieces of cherry share the same bark line. It’s the kind of board you bring out when people come over, then casually mention it’s cherry. At 18 inches, there’s room for a serious cheese situation.

Jars of Dust wheel-throws their oil dispensers by hand in a small studio — each one slightly different, all made to live on a counter instead of in the back of a cabinet. Gravesco Pottery’s little bowls in sage green stoneware are the kind of everyday pieces you reach for without thinking: salt, pepper, a cut lemon, the olives before dinner. CrushGrind makes their grinder mechanisms from hardened ceramic that won’t corrode with salt, which is one of those details you never think about until your grinder stops working after six months.

The highball glasses are handblown in Jalisco, Mexico by artisan glassblowers who have been doing this work for generations. Each glass has the kind of slight imperfections — tiny bubbles, subtle thickness variations — that you can only get from human hands and human breath. They’re the glasses you notice at someone’s house and ask about, and then they tell you a whole story, and that story is now yours to tell too.