Pantry!
by Fazia Rizvi
14 October 2003, 3:05 PM
I'm proud enough of how our kitchen is shaping up that I thought I'd share
some pictures of the new pantry. Since we don't have a walk-in pantry in our kitchen we had to come up with
something else. Or, well, we didn't have to, but I hate using
kitchen cabinets for pantry item storage. I'd much rather have a walk-in
pantry that could feed me for a year before I ever had to venture out for
food, leaving the kitchen cabinets for bowls, pans, pots, appliances,
dishes and spices. At first we cobbled together some old
bookcases and an old particle-board cabinet of mine as a stand-in, but
we really wanted something nicer. We perused through antique stores and
contemplated building something. Finally we found a couple of
hutches at IKEA that weren't very expensive and that fit the bill very
nicely. They
store a LOT - about quadruple what we were storing before - though it
doesn't look like it until you start filling them up. The great thing about these was that I could display my jams,
and jellies, honey and teas. That's
all honey on the top shelf there, and mostly homemade jams on the bottom
shelf. The mid shelf has all my "specialty" jams, like gooseberry,
lingonberry, fig, rosehips, pumpkin, etc. Over time I've managed to get a lot of nice tightly-sealed glass jars to
store various dried goods like pasta,
rice, lentils, beans, nuts and fruits. We got a simple
bookshelf to hold all of those because the practical storage also
looks really nice and I wanted to display it rather than hide it.
World Heritage Sites
by Fazia Rizvi
14 October 2003, 1:24 PM
That one news bit from national geographic got me wondering just what are
some of the world's designated "World Heritage Sites". I found a list of them on UNESCO's web
site. Now I *really* want to go travelling. I've been to most of the sites in
both Finland and Pakistan, both there's so many more to see all over the
world!
Media Self-Censorship
by Fazia Rizvi
14 October 2003, 1:11 PM
In the "well duh" department (for those of us who've been following
foreign news sources), apparently the U.S. news media was practicing
self-censorship during the Iraq war. I'm glad at least that Amanpour is among those being critical of the
media, since I've rather liked her. Amanpour:
CNN practiced self-censorship
CNN's top war correspondent,
Christiane Amanpour, says that the press muzzled itself during the Iraq
war. And, she says CNN "was intimidated" by the Bush administration and
Fox News, which "put a climate of fear and self-censorship." As criticism
of the war and its aftermath intensifies, Amanpour joins a chorus of
journalists and pundits who charge that the media largely toed the Bush
administration line in covering the war and, by doing so, failed to
aggressively question the motives behind the invasion.
Cool news today...
by Fazia Rizvi
14 October 2003, 9:53 AM
Via WIRED: Wanted:
Master Lego Model Builder Via the BBC: Astronaut
Foale heads for space
Via Nat geo: U.S.
Wary of World-Heritage Status, Travel Editor Says