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I use the opposite solution to the same problem. I cook so infrequently with brown sugar that I find it easier to keep molasses and regular sugar in stock and whip up a batch of brown sugar on an "as needed" basis.

The dishwasher, wok, linoleum floor, tiki-ish-head (on top of the cupboard) all say 60s to me.

I think the microwave by far has to be the biggest. After living w/o a microwave for several months, I can attest that leftovers just aren't the same.

The bar with barstools makes it very modern to me. Isn't the open kitchen a recent phenomenon?

Are those zinc countertops or stainless steel? Hard to tell but all the collectable stuff makes me think 90s rather than vintage. I feel like my grandma would've thought a classy kitchen in the 40s and 50s would be more formal.

Hopefully your landlord will calm down a bit but you shouldn't have balked at the $75 fee. You are asking your landlord to accept another person as a co-obligor on your lease. That requires the landlord determining the person's creditworthiness and preparing new documents. $75 seems like a reasonable price to me.

I watched it and it looks like the beak is holding it on the stand, no?

Next Monday I'm going to start a food journal. I'm trying to lose weight and I am on my last week of a dietfood delivery service. It's been great because all my food shows up on my doorstep each morning and I don't have to keep track of what I eat. But I can't live like this forever so I must start an old fashioned journal.

Any suggestions for a helpful calorie counter? I'd love to see a calorie counter that gives calories based on weight (i.e., one ounce of chicken breast = x calories) rather than one piece of chicken = 120 calories.

I'm excited to cook for myself again. I've already whipped up a huge grocery list of things I can make for myself again.

If you're up for a minor home improvement project - try taking down the wall tiles behind the toilet and vanity. I think the tile is a lot worse than the fixtures and less tile will only help the bathroom out.

It's not a French ban on U.S. beef - it's a European Union ban on U.S. and Canadian beef. And, for what it is worth, the WTO ruled that the ban wasn't based on scientific evidence and allowed the U.S. and Canada to "punish" the EU with these sorts of tariffs.

I'm not pro-hormone, but there is an argument that this is really about protecting EU beef producers - not for health reasons.

http://hpi.georgetown.edu/lifesciandsociety/pdfs/beef042099.pdf

Deleriumsama - I have the exact opposite problem. When I moved into my new place due to some weird structural stuff on one side of the kitchen the countertop is about 3" higher than standard. It's bliss. As a tall person I never knew you could chop something without getting a backache from hunching over.