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Categories / Food and Drink, Homeware, Music

Vinyl chopping board

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Chopping board
As well as coasters, book-ends, Christmas tree decorations and actually listening to the stuff, it seems there's another vinyl-inspired item available for the home: this vinyl chopping board.

Yes, this board comes in the shape of a traditional vinyl record. Rather than having the song title and artist on the label, it's decorated with a nice, bright picture of a tomato instead. You won't be able to put it on a turntable but it's sure to inspire hours of music relating pun fun as you are chopping up your onions,

This slice of kitchen fun costs £15. 

Buy it from Urban Outfitters

Categories / Food and Drink, Homeware

Vintage-style stacking cake tins

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Stacking cake tinesCath Kidston, Lisa Stickley: we seem to have featured a lot of cake tins recently. But if you like cake, these stacking cake tins have a great advantage – you can store three tiers worth!

Apart from the joy of holding a lot of cake, these tins have got the benefit of some good vintage style. They come in cream covered metal, with either green or red lids. The look is topped off with some matching, not-too-twee, retro typography. For those who are slightly less greedy, they're available as single tins too. 

The set of three stacking tins is available for £35. 

Buy it from the Dotcomgiftshop

Categories / Design and Interiors, Homeware

New kitchenware from Orla Kiely

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Ok teapot

As regular readers of this site will know, the world of Orla Kiely has been busy as of late, with the launch of her perfume as well as the Pattern book . Here's more new product, with a fantastic new range of kitchenware. 

The range moves far beyond mugs and includes most things required for a stylish kitchen: from bread bins to casserole dishes, sugar bowls to gratin dish, as well as the beautiful teapot pictured above. The teapot, and many of other wares, are decorated with her poppy meadow pattern, while several other of the new products use the linear stem pattern – a simplified version of her famous design.

Not released for sale just yet, it's available for pre-order at Heal's. Prices range from £15 for sugar bowl up to £50 for the teapot. 

See the range online 

Categories / Homeware

Retro kitchen timers from Berry Red

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Timer

For the icing on the cake in a retro style kitchen, take a look at these timers available from Berry Red.

The kitchen timers have a great retro look – available in blue, red or ivory enamel and with a graphic black and red dial. They'll time anything up to 55 minutes and handily have magnetic backs, so you can fix them to your cooker. 

Nice price too, at £8.50 each. 

See them online

Categories / Design and Interiors, Food and Drink

50s-style Hackman summer casserole dish

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Hackman dish

Think of summer food and I doubt you'll think of a casserole. This Hackman summer casserole dish may make you change your mind. 

It combines a traditional iron enamel dish with a charming '50s-style pattern by Dog Design featuring onions, peas and other tasty vegetables. Surely an essential purchase for any wannabe fifties housewife/husband?

The dish costs 39 euros

Buy it from Arctic Design

Categories / Food and Drink

Kitchen Front at the Imperial War Museum

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Ministry_of_Food_poster

A while back we featured the Imperial War Museum's The Ministry of Food exhibition, particularly the book which featured wartime recipes with which to feed your family on a budget today. If you're feeling too lazy to try these yourself you may be interested to hear that, for the run of the exhibition, the museum's cafe has transformed itself into Kitchen Front and is serving authentic recipes from the Second World War period.

Kitchen Front is the brain child of Company of Cooks and is named after a popular World War II BBC radio programme. While it's a intriguing project, it certainly won't be to everyone's taste. The idea of rationed portions and using margarine rather than butter not so appealing? Well, they've decorated the area with photographs of famous cooks from the period so you've got something else to look at other than what you're eating. 

Find out more from the Imperial War Museum website