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However, just like any other good thing, canvas shoes come with their challenges. Top of the list is how to clean them and even worse how to dry them. In this first moving world, it easy to resort to tossing your canvas in a dryer based on drying them fast. So can you put converse shoes in the dryer? The simple answer is no, I don’t care how badly you need to wear your converse shoes, but placing them in the dryer is an outright bad idea. You see, the heat from the dryer will cause the rubber on the...

Mother's day is coming and it's your time to unwind and relax, mama. To help you out, we've rounded up a few recipes that will give your partner (if you have one) a major hint for what to do this weekend. And since they might need help, we asked Molly Birnbaum, America's Test Kitchen Kids' Editor in Chief, to give us a few tips to get kids involved, too. According to Birnbaum, the best way to get younger kids to enjoy themselves in the kitchen is to include them in as much as possible—the menu planning, recipe picking, decision making,...

I don’t like the idea of using the gym’s mat right after another person who sweats a lot. (And I’m also picky since my hands tend to slide on most mats!) This is especially true when practicing hot yoga, since we all sweat a lot in those classes! But even though I always bring my own mat, I’ve been kind of clueless about the best way to clean it. At the yoga studio, I’d wipe it down with whatever spray the studio had, but now that I’m using it at home, I haven’t been as diligent about it. I thought...

If you are a huge fan of Japanese curry, you have to make this insanely delicious bread bun at home.  Curry Bread (Kare Pan) INGREDIENTS 150 g bread flour (1 cup + 1 Tbsp) 50 g cake flour (1/3 cup + 1 tsp) 3 g kosher/sea salt (use half for table salt) (1 tsp) 15 g sugar (1 Tbsp + ½ tsp) 3 g instant dry yeast (1 tsp; See Notes if you use ACTIVE dry yeast) 125 g whole milk (125 ml; I highly recommend using whole milk instead of non-fat or reduced-fat milk.) 10 g unsalted butter (1 Tbsp) 300 g Japanese curry of your choice (1 ½ cup) (at room temperature, made previous night kept in the fridge overnight. Here are...

Editor’s note: TPG doesn’t currently recommend traveling. However, I made this trip because I wanted to be closer to my family and help my sister take care of our parents as the coronavirus pandemic continues, with no end in sight.  I’m sharing my story not to encourage similar trips, but to provide information for those who must travel. Last week, my 14-year-old and I did a 1,700-mile road trip from Towson, Maryland (a suburb north of Baltimore), to our family home in San Antonio, Texas. We decided to stop overnight in Nashville, where I had booked a deluxe room with two queen...