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When staying organized is the name of the game, look beyond your kitchen cabinets and pantry shelves for storing your collection of Mason jars. Kitchen storage space is a precious commodity and as handy as these jars are, they are heavy and space-consuming.

Here are three little tips I stick to when storing unused jars in my apartment.

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Trying to find good, complex non-alcoholic beverages is hard. A lot of them are either super sugary or just plain boring. There’s a new trend in the New York restaurant scene, however, that actually sounds delicious. According to Mic, a concoction starring beet juice makes a fantastic faux-wine.

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Cocktails and summertime go together like spicy food and summertime — but cocktails and spicy food? That match-up is a bit trickier to navigate. Alcohol elevates the spicy sensation brought on by capsaicin so, if you’re not careful, you’ll end up feeling the burn — and just the burn. After all, when your mouth is on fire, it’s difficult to taste anything else.

But don’t despair! There’s hope yet for this pairing, whether your tipple of choice is sweet and fruity, citrusy, or bone dry.

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From Apartment Therapy → A Fresh Start for Everyone: Take Advantage of the Back-to-School Energy Boost (Even if You’re Not a Student)

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We love Mason jars for organizing the pantry, storing salad, and shaking up whipped cream, but sometimes the most useful part isn’t actually the jar at all — it’s the lid. Here are five times when the metal seal and ringed lid are way more useful than the jar.

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Scallops are like the candy of the sea: We’re always in the mood for them and we can always have just one more! They used to be a special treat that we only had when eating out, but then we discovered how incredibly easy they are to make at home. Here are a few tips we’ve learned over time.

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There’s a lot of advice out there for storing tomatoes. Some people swear that they’ll never ever refrigerate their beautiful summer heirlooms — but what about the freezer?

The freezer is the surprising secret to the easiest long-term storage for whole ripe tomatoes, as long as you follow a few guidelines and know when and how to use tomatoes that have been frozen.

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My front porch is nothing fancy. Tucked away on a six-acre farm an hour’s drive from the nearest Whole Foods, it’s a plain ’40s-era slab of concrete and brick under a modest overhang supported by scrolled iron posts.

But it looks out on a meadow where wrens and wood thrushes sing. A peach tree at one end provides shade while swallowtails, bees, and a hundred other pollinators dance among the zinnias and Mexican sunflowers. Hummingbirds sip from the purple hyacinth bean vines that curve lazily through the scrollwork.

I may live far from the madding crowd, but sitting on my porch, I’m fully connected to the web of life.

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We all know the big soda brands like Coke and Pepsi, but in almost every corner of the United States, there is at least one well-loved regional brand of the bubbly stuff. Here are just some of the most popular regional soft drinks from around the country.

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Yesterday the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced that it plans to purchase about 11 million pounds of cheese to assist in the dairy surplus and help food banks and families in need. The cheese purchase is valued at $20 million dollars.

According to this press release, the dairy surplus is the highest it’s been in 30 years. As Slate explained earlier this summer, this is in large part due to U.S. losing sales to Europe, where the milk is considerably cheaper and the falling Euro makes exports more desirable.

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