Dual-Purpose Grater

Here’s a dual-purpose cheese grater: It grates cheese, yes, but it also is a nice table decoration, it’s that good-looking. The sleek, translucent container has a removable lid along with a removable soft and hard cheese grater. It comes with its own shovel-like serving spoon.

Michael Graves cheese grater, $9.99, from Target stores or www.target.com.

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Chocolate Chunks in a Can

Use Scharffen Berger’s new bittersweet chocolate chunks like you would chocolate chips. They come packaged in a handy tin for easy storage. The flavor of the chocolate is so good, though, that the chunks may never make it into cookies.

Scharffen Berger bittersweet chocolate chunks, 8-ounce can, $9 from Gelson’s and Bristol Farms stores, and Let’s Get Cooking, 4643 Lakeview Canyon Road, Westlake Village, (818) 991-3940.

Donna Deane