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If you’re looking for some stylish options that can help organize your life and place, check out 30 below for some inspiration. Otherwise, a good general rule is that you can find some pretty great options at stores like Food52, West Elm, Nordstrom, and even Urban Outfitters and the newly elevated Amazon Home Basics.

Serve the steak alongside the greens on a plate. Place wrapped tortillas on the table and pull tortillas from the dish towel, as needed. Fill a tortilla with steak and eat with the greens.

The project Upper Hokkaido in northern Japan has favorable wind conditions and abundant open land, making the area suitable for wind turbines. Renewable-energy power suppliers have been applying to construct wind farms in the area, but as these wind farms proliferate, fluctuations in their power output will increasingly impact the electricity demand-and-supply balance.

“MoMA has been collecting architecture and design objects for decades,” says Plat. That means that some of the items you see on the shelf at the MoMA shop are also sitting in a display case over at the museum, presented as art objects that people pay to look at. This teak cutlery set by iconic Danish brand Dansk is in the museum’s permanent collection, as are these sleek crystal Champagne glasses and this Screwpull corkscrew.

Reversing the typical game dev process by designing a controller first, then making a game to fit it, rather than designing games for the controllers we already have, is a great way to shake things up and come to new ideas we might never have otherwise discovered.

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In the decade or so since Starbucks introduced its decidedly sweet take on the classic espresso-forward Latte Macchiato with the Caramel Macchiato, the flavor has reached ice cream pint- and candle scent-levels of ubiquity. Now, following years in which the coffee chain has unleashed ever more colorful and Instagram-baity drinks, it’s reinventing the Caramel Macchiato in a similarly indulgent mold. And it could very well be the future. 

I’m an amateur cook, and one reason why I don’t do it often (and thereby don’t get any better) is because I hate having to continually refer back to a cookbook or a recipe on my phone. This lets me ask cooking questions to Alexa without taking my hands off the cutting board or having to pause my podcast or music — since I’m probably already using the Echo to listen. It also helps with the boredom I still feel whilst cooking. — Mara Leighton, Insider Picks Reporter

London has a wealth of renowned markets, but perhaps the most beautiful is the weekly Columbia Road Flower Market. Every Sunday, this road of Victorian shops is taken over by market stalls selling seasonal blooms and houseplants. For the best bargains, visit around 3 p.m. in the afternoon when the crowds begin to subside and prices are slashed.

A trip to Jasper Morrison’s understated Shoreditch store is something of a pilgrimage for fans of industrial design. The tiny store was opened in 2008 in an unused corner of the British designer’s studio and sells a variety of what the designer labels “Super Normal” anonymous objects, like stainless-steel kettles or pairs of secateurs for citrus fruit, chosen as much for their looks as their superior performance.

Get rid of all the others. What, too much anxiety? Fine, you can hang onto a decent serrated bread knife for bagels and baguettes and the like (they also do a nice job on tomatoes). That’s really all you need, though. Steak knives don’t count here, because they’re silverware! Not real knives. You’ll want six to eight.