Food trends: From a colourful spin on one of our favourite kitchen tools to gourmet goodies, this is what has our food team excited right now!

Food trends: Five things our food team loves this month

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Beer aficionados will now get to brew their favourite stouts, lagers and ales with this small beer-brewing appliance.

Next trendy kitchen gadget: Picobrew Zymatic beer-brewing appliance

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PB&Js are one of the ultimate comforting foods — and for our April issue, we decided to sweeten the deal. Find this doughnut recipe at Chatelaine.com

How we recreated our favourite guilty pleasure

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Chances are you'll be gathering with friends and family this weekend. Here are eight hostess gifts you can bring along as a surprise for your host!

Eight hostess gifts for the food-lover

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Don't let your waffle iron gather dust in the cupboard. There's more than just one way to use it — so let's dig them out and use them for more than our favourite breakfast staple.

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Five things the kitchen team loves this month

The next trendy kitchen gadget may be…here’s a hint: it makes beer

Guilty pleasures: How we recreated the classic PB and J

Eight hostess gifts for the food lover

Three new ways to use a waffle iron