This picture is online at The New York Times, in a blog post about "A Week Without Shopping"-- a weeklong challenge on eGullet to live off the bounty already in your kitchen.
Sounds like a great project. But I'm more interested in the picture.
Just look at all those pretty glass jars, filled with bulk staple ingredients. Not a brand name in sight. Only one container made from plastic. And the jars aren't even all matchy-matchy-- they were acquired over time, for free. Now there is nothing wrong with buying matching glass containers-- I lust after a matched set of stackable glass refrigerator containers. What I'm saying is that these don't match and yet it all looks good together.
I hope my pantry looks like that one of these days.
This has nothing to do with saving the planet. I guess my point, if I have one, is that reducing plastic usage is also a quality of life issue.
5 comments:
I totally agree with you. And you're making me feel even better about the ten glass refrigerator containers I bought two weeks ago!
I've been wanting containers like that! Soots and Arya are very lucky kitties :)
How much were yours from Container Store? I know Crate & Barrell also has them. Here in NYC we have a sturdyware store called Fishs Eddy that may have them as well. Fishs Eddy is one of my favorite places-- can't resist going in there, just to drool.
They were $5.99 each at The Container Store. Which was vastly different from the $11.95 - $14.95 I was finding from online retailers.
Beautiful!
Someday I hope...
Hey there. I just wanted to let you know, further to your post from February, that we are going to do another eGullet week without shopping starting Monday. When we launch, we'll have a special URL: egullet.org/dontshopnow -- at the moment this will only lead to the February topic but when we go live it will lead to the current one. Stay tuned... All the best, -Steven
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