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Okay, I’ll admit it: I spent $160 on a trash can. Actually, I spent that much on a trash can twice, because I have two of them. And you know what? I don’t regret either purchase. They are great trash cans, far superior to the cheapie ones and even the mid-priced copycats on the market.

I splurged on the Simple Human Butterfly Step Cans, getting the 45-liter option for regular trash and the 40-liter can with two bins for recycling. What could possibly be so great about vessels exclusively designed to temporarily hold stuff I plan on tossing to the curb? Here’s a list of five (five!) things.

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In 1964, Nico Jacobellis, the manager of a movie theater in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, was fined $2,500 and accused of violating Ohio’s obscenity statutes, all because he screened a then-controversial French film about adultery. Even though the state Supreme Court upheld the charges against him, the case went all the way to the United States Supreme Court, where the justices were tasked with determining whether the flick — and Jacobellis’ willingness to show it on the big screen — should’ve been protected by the First Amendment.

The Court overturned the charges against him, but it wasn’t unanimous, and the justices couldn’t agree on a definition for what constituted obscene material, and how freedom of speech should (or shouldn’t) apply. “I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so,” Justice Potter Stewart famously wrote. “But I know it when I see it.” That phrase — “I know it when I see it” — has become an accepted way to define something that is otherwise difficult to define, like what is or isn’t an obscene movie. Or what is or isn’t a condiment.

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Despite the fact that the sole purpose of the refrigerator is to keep your food safe — by chilling it to temperatures cool enough to slow bacterial growth and rotting — it can actually pose some hazards to your health. When you think about it, it makes sense: It’s one of the few places you go in and out of multiple times per day. And when you do, you’re typically moving around food, in the middle of cooking (hello, bacteria on your hands!), or putting away new packages (which have spent time in transit, picking up who-knows-what along the way).

While there are a few spots you would probably guess are germ-y — the door handles, for one — the grossest spot in your fridge is actually pretty surprising.

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Sur La Table’s Anniversary Sale is huge, with many items up to 70 percent off. And if you want to shop it, you’re in luck. As a final incentive they’re offering an additional 10% off hundreds of items plus free shipping on any order with no minimum purchase. In other words, they’re having a sale on their sale.

You can browse discounted items by category, but in case you need some inspiration I’ve got holiday entertaining and cold-weather cooking on my mind. Here are three of my top picks.

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Once you’ve tasted these roasted carrots bathed in a honey-garlic butter sauce, you might proclaim (like both my husband and I did) that it’s the only way you’ll ever eat carrots again. The combination of nutty brown butter, fragrant garlic, and sweet honey is basically the dream team, so it’s no wonder you’ll feel this way.

The carrots soak up all this goodness to become a side dish that rivals the main course, and they’re nothing like the mushy carrots of your childhood. Believe me: You’ll dream about these carrots.

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Kitchn’s Delicious Links column highlights recipes we’re excited about from the bloggers we love. Follow along every weekday as we post our favorites.

Macaroni and cheese is my ultimate comfort food. I don’t think there has ever been a moment in my life when I did not want macaroni and cheese. I love almost all varieties, from the orange kind that comes in a cardboard box to the fancy restaurant macaroni with white truffles and artisanal breadcrumbs. And I am not opposed to adding a few well-chosen vegetables — like broccoli! — like this recipe from Skinny Taste does.

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When Apple released its latest slew of new emojis earlier this week, food folks were excited to see lobster, mango, leafy greens, salt, moon cake, and cupcakes made the cut, as well as the all-important bagel.

“But wait,” said almost everyone. “That bagel is naked!” Now, two weeks after the original release, Apple has agreed the bagel deserves a dressing, and the latest version not only has a generous (but I’ll be honest, not generous enough) schmear of cream cheese, but also looks distinctly more like the kind of hand-rolled gem you’d find in New York City than what you’d find in a plastic bag in a grocery store in Arizona.

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Is it just us, or is it finally starting to feel like fall? Sure, autumn’s been in session for about a month, but the leaves are just starting to change colors and it’s finally cold enough to wear a chunky sweater. Yay!

We figured we’d celebrate with some new, seasonally appropriate kitchen stuff. Slow cookers, electric kettles, and mugs, for example, have “fall” written all over them. Luckily, you don’t have to shell out the big bucks to get into the autumnal spirit.

These cold-weather kitchen essentials are all on sale this week.

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Alton Brown’s cult-favorite cooking show Good Eats is getting a makeover for the Cooking Channel. There won’t be “new” episodes of the show (yet), but some of your favorite episodes of the defunct series are getting “remixed” — which basically means new updated scenes.

This is great news for anyone who has been missing Brown’s sharp sense of humor and ingenious cooking hacks in recent years, but what if you don’t have cable? Don’t panic, because the Cooking Channel is making it easy for anyone to watch the show’s premiere episode.

Read more: Alton Brown Shares the Release Date for “Good Eats: Reloaded”

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Here’s a scenario: you’re on your couch relaxing, watching the 6 o’clock news after a long, busy day. Then you hear local anchors alerting viewers to a thing every shopper dreads: a product recall. In this instance, a recent shipment of a popular extra-cheddar snack food contains an extra-bad ingredient. (It’s salmonella.) Anyone who bought a bag is advised to use caution and return the item to the store as soon as possible…

…That is, unless you can’t exactly return the absolute last cheesy handful of that very faulty snack that you just gobbled down in your home.

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