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Office Cookery: How to Avoid the Same Old Lunch

By Christine Chiao Wed., Feb. 27 2013 at 10:30 AM

Categories: Cooking, Kitchen DIY

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If you work at an office on a semi-to-regular basis, chances are you've developed a lunch routine that either involves a microwave, leftovers, or whatever's quick from around corner. You can only get away from your desk for so long, after all. On top of this, most office kitchens are equipped like a conventional bachelor unit: You're lucky if the refrigerator is a decent size. A hot plate would just be a bonus amenity.

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Tips on Cutting Down the Amount of Food You Throw Away

By Christine Chiao Wed., Feb. 13 2013 at 11:43 AM

Categories: Kitchen DIY

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When news first broke on the 40% of perfectly good food we throw away as waste on an annual basis, the shock was enough for the news to stay circulating for a few days -- a feat rare in online journalism these days. If we expand the circle of perpetrators to include other countries, the stats grew even more staggering with a third, or 1.3 billion tons, of food produced.

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5 Labor Day DIY Projects: Build a Winery, Plant a Rooftop Garden + Make Moonshine

By Jenn Garbee Thu., Aug. 30 2012 at 7:00 AM

Categories: Books, Foraging, Gardening, Kitchen DIY, Wine

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DIY: Homemade apartment-window liqueur

Holiday traffic, bars reeking of stale beer, hoards of people intent on their last beach fling. Ah, Labor Day weekend fun. Actually, it's the perfect excuse to stay home and channel your inner Euell Gibbons and forage for backyard cattails.

Or, if you're not swamp-adjacent, build a mini-winery in your hall closet. Plant that trellised vegetable garden on your apartment patio, the one you've been saying all summer you're going to finish. Distill something or, if you prefer to keep things legal, make homemade liqueur with summer fruit (photo above). All good, old-fashioned hard work, but not in that paint-the-kitchen literal "laboring" sense. It's Labor Day weekend, but also the end of summer, so we might as well have some fun.

Get the resources you need to make that home winery (!), trellised garden and other projects after the jump.