I shopped Chefs back when they were out of the Midwest (Illinois?). Then Nieman-Marcus got a hold of them, and I had to pay sales tax in Texas. They also stopped carrying some of the really useful stuff, such as wide saran. (Not everyone has access to Sam's, Cosco, or a local restaurant store.) I do not recall if there was an additional owner before Target bought them to cannibalize for their customer data base and recipes. Much of the Cook's unsold inventory has ended up at Tuesday Morning on "close-out."

I'll have to look online. They were my favorite place to kitchen shop.

OK: Here's the scoop: https://www.chefscatalog.com/about-us/

• This reply was modified 7 years ago by BakerAunt.

Unfortunately not many catalog companies can make it on 'funky stuff', even Williams Sonoma moved away from the interesting hard-to-find stuff to having pages and pages of spices and sauces and expensive pans.

I remember when Brookstone had all sorts of tools you couldn't find anywhere else, instead of junk.