this is why god invented ebay. if you see something you like at DWR, chances are the original period version (or something very similar in style) can be found on ebay for much less and it will pro...

Tax rules for amateur real estate investors (as opposed to professional real estate investors who spend at least 50% of their work hours on real estate activities) can get rather complicated, and h...

Ditto all above. A friend of mine kept her spices/dried herbs on one of those open & exposed style spice racks. So I grabbed one of the herb jars of dried rosemary and turned it around to show he...

Yeah, but what do you do when your home bar has 50 bottles of booze, not including wine? I got half a dozen different kinds of rum alone...

Braised - I like taking the small, delicated seasonal kind you get at the farmer's market - I just tear off the green tops and leave them unpeeled, brown them a little in some oil oil with some sha...

IKEA is like the 80/20 rule writ large. 80% of their stuff is just unmitigated crap - cheap (and cheap looking), flimsy, disposable crap. But if you pick through the crap much like at a flea mark...

I made butter using Jennifer McLagan's recipe from her "Fat" cookbook. 2 cups heavy cream, let sit out till it gets close to room temperature, put in stand mixer with whip attachment, whip on medi...

So a bunch of trees were cut down to make a one-off, used once dinner table for a bunch of powerful bigwigs? WTF is so green and sustainable about that? You know what's sustainable - ...

I always use cucumber in my Pimm's Cup, if I can. Take a slice of cucumber lengthwise using a vegetable peeler and toss into your highball glass. (not the external skin, but a peel of the meat) S...

Maya, Assuming you aren't asking for recipes for cocktails with Campari (like the Negroni), one nice classic way to enjoy Campari is with soda water. I like mine with soda and a lim...

Noilly Prat is decent but certainly not top shelf - more middle shelf. (Martini and Rossi dry vermouth is way on the bottom shelf - like right over there, yeah there, where the trash can is.)

Fish twitches, not just eels. Its just that 99% of the population gets its fish wrapped in plastic or pre-filleted off a mound of ice at Whole Foods. Go to Chinatown - where they sell...

under $1500 a month for 1BR downtown is generally a good deal, unless by "heart of the City" you mean the Tenderloin. The key is to find a unit in a building that was built before June...

As noted above, while silly yuppie white people pay $11 on Amazon for this stuff, Latinos have been using dried hibiscus (or jamaica) to make hibiscus tea and syrup for ages. Go to any decent siz...

I've used this kind of peeler - not a big fan. As someone living in a city apartment where space is always at a premium, I like my kitchen tools to be a multi-tasking as possible. This style of ...

Cook's Illustrated did a review of various vegetable stocks which included the Better Than Bouillon. BTB scored poorly - somewhere slightly above "tastes like ass". I think Swanson's came in top,...

Sorry, that should be "directly on the oven rack"

I roast my birds directly on the rack and put a janky old pan underneath to catch the drippings. Cheap, easy and doesn't require taking up valuable cabinet space with some I would only use a few t...

Citrus of all kinds (lemons, limes, grapefruit, & esp. orange). As some mentioned above, the world domination of the navel orange got its start when a couple of cuttings were transferred from Braz...

Not to pick nits, but these types of cocktails should not be shaken over ice. Cocktails with a base plus vermouth (manhattan, martini, brooklyn, etc.) are to be stirred with ice. Shaking them pro...