Luce’s Gluten-Free Bread Mix

A just-add-water baking kit for a delicious artisanal loaf

Although gluten-free products have sprung up everywhere, a lot of them tend to feel like they’re lacking something fundamental. Texture is altered, flavor is bland and occasionally joyless, and many of them are not nutritious. Even as awareness and demand grows, it can still be difficult to find products that actually taste great. When we found out about Luce’s gluten-free bread mix—an all-in-one package touting …

Seven Outstanding Espresso Blends

We're celebrating National Espresso Day with a round up of our favorite beans, a mixture of classics and new

While the legitimacy of these abundant “national” holidays that tend to pop up arbitrarily is definitely in question, we couldn’t pass up tomorrow’s opportunity—National Espresso Day—to pay homage to one of the purest ways to prepare coffee: espresso. The thick, concentrated brew packed into a tiny cup for a bold—not bitter—flavor is the default way to take coffee in Europe but sometimes can be more …

Simply Gum

The first completely natural chewing gum, avoiding the 80 synthetic ingredients found in most others

Conceived by a team of entrepreneurs including Caron Proschan (a natural product devotee) Simply Gum was created after the founders discovered that regular chewing gum contained up to 80 hidden chemicals. These chemicals include some of the same components used to manufacture rubber tires, plastic bottles and glue. In fact, it appears that consumers are often kept in dark about what they chew because the …