Recipes

If you’re mornings don’t really begin until that first sip of coffee, well, we have news for you.Our new coffee capsules bring the convenience of coffee-shop quality into your home. With 100% Fair Trade Certified ? Coffee and packed for optimum freshness in 100% recyclable aluminum packaging, our new coffee capsules reflect our commitment to exceptional quality, ...

We turned to our Recipe Editor, Sharron Wood, who has years of experience editing (and taste-testing!) thousands of our recipes featured in our catalogues, cookbooks, on our website, and on our blog. An avid entertainer and craft cocktail maven, she shares her favorite quick-but-elegant meal to serve guests when her husband spontaneously decides to invite people over. Read o...

There are two camps of summer dessert lovers: those who are all about creamy ice cream and gelato and those who are all about the tart, fruity flavor in granitas and sorbets. But what if a dessert could deliver beautifully on both fronts? Imagine the satisfaction of ice cream minus the messiness of a peach. Enter: peach ice cream. Not peach gelato or sorbet, although each of...

Plus: Christina Tosi's empire expands into the grocery store, a record-breaking pumpkin, and new food words added to the dictionary. There are plenty of tricks to ripen an avocado, but it turns out the best option might also be the easiest. All you have to do is put your avocado in the windowsill and let the sun work its magic for a day! Do you have dreams of visiting C...

#BalanceforBetterMarch 8 is International Women’s Day a day to celebrate and honor all women. With this year’s theme being?Balance For Better, Williams Sonoma is focusing on women as leaders, from the executives in our global supply chains to the chefs and restaurateurs we admire in the food world. #BalanceforBetter is about building a gender-balanced world, whe...

Plus: A new food site from Chrissy Teigen, the results of Anthony Bourdain's auction, and the holiday drink lineup from Starbucks. According to a new survey from Instacart, canned cranberry sauce is secretly the most disliked Thanksgiving dish. Sweet potatoes came in second place. Chrissy Teigen, cookbook author and the funniest person on Twitter, launched her own food site....

An elegant Easter dinner is the ultimate springtime celebration. Inspired by the colorful table in our latest catalog, we asked our stylist Rebecca Robertson to share her top tips for creating a beautiful Easter gathering at home. Here, she explains how to pull it off with fresh accents, creative layering and a touch of playful charm.Rebecca Robertson’s Eight Rules for...

If there's anyone who knowsreally knowshow to decorate a Christmas tree, it's Wayne Maness. Not only is he the Head of Product Design for Williams Sonoma, he also decorated the White House Christmas trees for 13 years for Presidents Clinton, Bush and Obama. At my family home, we have a three-car garage that only fits one car because of all the Christmas decorations, he says....

You’ve probably heard all about the cost of coffee when it comes to your bottom line: Hitting up coffee shops costs many of us $11 (or more!) per week. That obviously adds up. Beyond that, though, there are a few other things we all need to consider when it comes to our daily coffee habit. Specifically, the impact your beans have on the environment, the conditions for ...

Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova was the inspiration for this showstopper of a dessert. And it made such an impression that it sparked a debate between Australia and New Zealand, both of which tried to claim it as the brainchild of their citizens. This particular pavlova recipe is unique in that it has all the textures you want in one dessert: It is crunchy thanks to the merin...