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Great tips so far -- many thanks, everyone. Although @kwhit9tl, I had read that the Georgetown D&D was closed down a few months back due to a vermin problem so even if it has reopened, I'd prefer to avoid it.

I'm curious too about using agave or honey instead of the brown rice syrup. Not trying to be difficult, that just happens to be what we have in the house. Is brown rice syrup as sweet as the others? I'm just trying to figure out if using agave would make these sickly sweet.

Worth noting that I had the same experience at a Harris Teeter in DC. They will replace all torn, old, and generally beat up bags for free as they have a lifetime guarantee.

I lived in Morocco for 6 months and still regret the things that I did not bring home (and trust me, I loaded up on souvenirs). Next time I'm there, I'll buy a tajine (I'm sorry, but the Le Creuset version doesn't count), another tea services and I'll make sure to stock up on spices.

While we're on the subject, I got my boyfriend a kit from Brooklyn Brew Shop (a good friend and my brother both had used them before with rave reviews). I'm really excited for us to make beer but I have no idea where to buy the glass bottles. Any ideas?

My boyfriend and I usually keep it simple -- get all of our crap in, crash on whatever piece of furntiure made the trek and order thai food.

His aunt however introduced me to her family's Ukranian tradition when she came to our last housewarming. It involves giving the new home owner (/renter) bread, salt, wine, and sugar. Bread -- that this house may never know hunger, salt -- that life here may always have flavor, sugar -- that your love in this home may always be sweet, wine -- that there will always be joy.

She took some liberties with the gifts (zucchini bread, fancy hawaiian salt, godiva chocolates) but the idea remains the same. I've decided I'm adopting that as my own tradition because it was just that lovely!

Umm... definitely didn't realize hall trees were extinct! I wouldn't be able to work one into my modern apartment but my mother has always had one (similar in function to the one pictured -- shelf for keys, drawer for gloves/spares, a big mirror, hooks for hat and coats, space on the bottom for boots) as do many members of my extended family. Maybe we're just old fashioned!

We just got the Greek key duvet and shams (but not the Euro shams bc they're just too expensive) for our master and I'm in looooove. My boyfriend thinks our bedroom looks like the Shore but I'm leaning towards Mykonos!

Did anyone else notice that she sent in the EXACT same question today to the Washington Post? What -- you didn't like Joe's answer enough?

[and yes, clearly i spend too much time reading about food at work. i realize that.]

Has anyone actually ordered a map from here? I really want to get one for my boyfriend's birthday (his family home in middle of nowhere PA... pretty cool) but I can't tell how big the map actually is. Is there some way to tell so I can start thinking about frames? Thanks!