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This post originally appeared on February 19, 2020, in Add to Cart — the weekly newsletter for people who love shopping (almost) as much as they love eating. Subscribe now.
If you know what you’re in the market for, shopping can be an intense experience. You can sift through reams of reviews from fellow shoppers or rigorous assessments from review sites, or scroll through roundups of products organized by top brands or affordability or any number of other factors. On the hunt for the very best, you can knock yourself out (and probably feel a little knocked out too).
But here’s the thing: Sometimes, you don’t know what you want. I added these Crate & Barrel pasta bowls to my wedding registry spontaneously — mainly because they matched the plates and smaller bowls I already had on there. When they arrived, my partner scoffed: They were way bigger than I’d realized — honestly, kind of enormous — and we assumed we’d have no use for them. We don’t even make pasta that much. We almost sent them back.
Turns out they’re our favorite dishes. Falling somewhere between a bowl and a plate, they’re the perfect vessel for weeknight dinners, like stew or a robust salad or really any lazily yet lovingly slopped-together combo meant to be eaten all at once. The sloped edges make it easy to scoop One Perfect Bite onto your fork without being neat about it, and the comically large surface area helps, ironically, with portion control. (The guideline: Prepare enough to fill the bowl just once, and that’s it; anything else is excessive.)
Going on a shopping hunt can be satisfying, but so can stumbling upon something you didn’t even know you needed.
Things to buy
- At this point, Taco Bell is as much a lifestyle brand as it is a fast-food joint, and as such, its online merch shop is robust. My coworkers are eyeing these enamel taco pins.
- Speaking of which, you can now get Goldie pins, letting you adorably declare your devotion to the Philadelphia falafel-and-tahini-shake shop.
- We should all be drinking rosé de saignée, a pink Champagne that’s the result of skin contact with dark-skinned grapes — i.e., it has those natural wine vibes. Give the Larmandier-Bernier rosé de saignée a try.
- Home cafe videos are not something I spend a lot of time watching, but I do love this elegant little gin glass, just one of the many glasses recommended by Eater’s Jenny G. Zhang for trying the viral trend yourself.
Things to know
- I learned a lot from this Curbed piece about refrigerators, including the concept of “the cold chain.”
- It would appear we’re going to be blessed with a Supreme x Oreo collaboration… which is already on eBay.
- Holy crap, can someone teach me how to assemble this flower arrangement at Comice in Paris?
- “Woman Kind of Mean For Someone With Adorable Little Fruit Earrings.”
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