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Am I the only one who thinks this isn't such a great idea?? Don't get me wrong: it looks lovely. BUT, if you live in an apartment building and if at any point something is amiss and the super, or an electrician, or the fire dept or whoever needs to get into your apt and you're not there and can't be reached, unless they know exactly where your box is located, you're not helping them getting to the box quickly.

A (less elegant) solution is probably to ... paint the box? Some light paint would considerably diminishing the ugliness...

I don't know how cruel it is or whatever, but i do know this: this is a famous, well-known trick that kids do. I had encountered one such youtube vid once, showed it to my mom (who grew up on a farm) and she was like, "oh yeah, my brothers and his friends used to do that all the time when we were kids. Take 15 of them, line them up asleep, and then create some huge racket, waking them all up at the same time, creating a panic of feathers". so there you go.

this advice from a French person ... Cheese should not be stored too cold! Many in France that don't have too hot a kitchen (or the old school way for people who had pantries in old old homes with thick walls) is actually to store cheeses out outside the fridge. Yes, even the creamier camemberts and brie. If you have a cellar for instance, that's a great place. But in any case, you do need to keep the cheese wrapped and separated enough that the flavors of one don't mix up with another. You don't want your goat cheese to smell like roquefort!

well to me, if you can definitely be sure that say, 15 people avail themselves to that service per van that's driving (but is that reasonable? I d assume every person would be looking to get a monster-load of stuff), then I guess you could call it an 'ecological indulgence" of some 20 miles to get groceries. It's really much more than you ought to 'invest' to get groceries, but it s not too scandalous if the stuff you're buying means you ll be eating less junk, less badly-raised meat etc. But any way you stretch it, it's still an ecological indulgence.

Bamboo tongs are 2 bucks at Bed Bath and Beyond. Which means they exist for cheaper elsewhere. But 2 bucks is already an improvement over this $6.95 one at Amazon...

For those of you who just can't throw out old condiment, here's my tip, which, I daresay, is rather fool proof. When you open a jar/tube of whatever, take a permanent marker and mark the date you open it.

It's going to be hard to resist rationalizing not throwing out something when it is staring at you in the face that the thing in it has been festering in the jar for like, 8 months.

a variation on the 'piece of paper towel ziplock bag', I make a little bed of tissue paper in a tupperware, and put the veggies on top... works like a charm.

another tip: avoid too small furniture. It is counter intuitive, but one (relatively) bigger piece of furniture along with a cast of normal size furniture will make the whole place seem bigger than a cast of diminutive pieces that make it seem as if you've stepped into a dollhouse.

I like to support my local supermarket and farmer's market at in Brooklyn (Grand Army Plaza, yay!). Now my local supermarket is not friendly, their selection is so-so, I would never buy meat or frozen food from them because I'm not trusting them to respect the cold chain... But they are the local guy, they hire these little older ladies as cashiers and local kids to fill the shelves, and every neighborhoods needs a supermarket and I want mine to stay... For the stuff I won't buy from them, I go to TJ...

How exactly do you wipe out a hot skillet? very carefully....