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As someone who’s spent the majority of the last decade writing about food in some capacity, I thought I’d have a lot to say for this newsletter about that all-important hub of the kitchen: the pantry. But I have little universal advice on specifics, simply because pantries are so personal. What looks well-stocked and organized to some may seem lacking or downright perplexing to others.
I feel vaguely uneasy if I don’t have certain favorites on hand. Quality Spanish olive oil I can
afford to use in quantity. A couple jars of roasted Hatch chiles for a last-minute stew.
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Looks like it’s time to restock the pantry.
Photo courtesy of United Archives GmbH / Alamy Stock Photo
Want to know what classic film this is from?
Scroll to the bottom for the answer.
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Where to Stock Your Pantry
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Values-Driven Shopping
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Thrive has tons of items from great brands at very low prices, and offsets all shipping. I recommend their house label for organic oils, nuts, and sugars. Membership will quickly pay for itself. Read our review.
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Focus on Food Waste
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Misfits offers perfectly good produce and packaged goods at a discount. The items don’t make it to stores because of sizing, cosmetic, and packaging discrepancies, or simple supply chain issues. Read our review.
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Upgraded Plant Milks
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One Bluedot columnist has “never been so pleased by a non-dairy cappuccino” as by the one she made at home with Joi’s tasty, just-add-water plant milk concentrates. Read our review.
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Heart-Warming Broth
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Brodo uses only organic vegetables and pasture-raised beef and poultry for its wonderful bone broths. A new, shelf-stable formulation streamlines shipping (and makes it more eco-friendly).
Read our review.
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Truly Nice Spice
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Burlap & Barrel’s Single-Origin Spices will be the most flavorful you’ve ever tasted. Refresh your pantry before you start all your cold-weather baking, mulling, and roasting. Read our review.
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Salt with a Story
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Handcrafted in Iceland, Saltverk salt comes from Icelandic seawater that’s heated and crystallized in a process powered by the island’s geothermal energy. Read our review.
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Flour Power
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King Arthur’s White Whole Wheat Flour comes from regeneratively grown wheat; the company pledges that its other (terrific) flours will follow suit by 2030. They also sell quality tools and ingredients for bakers. Read our review.
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Snacks for Activists
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Patagonia Provisions approaches food with the same purpose its parent company brings to clothing. The delicious tinned seafood, dried fruit, jerkies, and more all have impressive sustainability stories. Read our review.
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Cheesy Seeded Vegan Crackers
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This recipe, from Bluedot’s vegan baking expert Cleo Carney, reminds me of one I fell in love with during the height of my 2020-induced baking mania. Depending on what you keep in the pantry, you can make these crackers on a whim, with no special shopping, and adjust the seasonings to your taste. Within an hour of cracking open the cupboard, you’re ready to enjoy the finished product. It’s also always fun to make yourself something you’re used to buying at the store. Nutty buckwheat flour adds great flavor, but Cleo says that you can sub in whole wheat flour if you have it on hand. All-purpose flour won’t work, however. Click for Cleo’s cracker recipe.
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Bluedot Contributing Editor Mollie Doyle doesn’t love Pinterest-perfect pantries. She writes:
I’ll be honest. I find all the pictures of people’s glossy, zero-waste kitchens with perfectly labeled Mason jars to be obnoxious, and, for the most part, dishonest. Do these folks really have not one piece of single-use plastic in their kitchens? Not even a plastic trash bag? I don’t believe it. I also don’t like the feelings of guilt and shame these photos tend to elicit.
So let me say this: If you have plastic in your pantry, or any climate-change-contributing product in your fridge or pantry, it is not entirely your fault …
Keep reading “Room for Change: The Pantry,” by Mollie Doyle, for great
advice on breaking habits and reducing waste.
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Did you see our previous BuyBetter newsletters? If not, visit our site for round-ups of clean beauty, laundry and food storage solutions, back-to-school favorites, picks for pups, baby showers, the Beach, and summer clothes, products for picnicking and renovating, kitchen favorites, white sneakers we love, and household cleaning products.
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–Elizabeth
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Elizabeth Weinstein, Bluedot’s Marketplace Editor, lives in Manhattan with her husband; her papillon, Finley; and her cats, SanDeE* and Modell. When she’s not asking the folks at Bloomingdale’s and Nordstrom to try on all of their sustainable sneakers in a size 9½, she can be found at the Union Square Greenmarket or gardening on her rooftop terrace.
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P.S. The still above comes from the 1934 movie, The Thin Man, and shows Nick and Nora Charles (played by William Powell and Myrna Loy), with Asta
the dog (played by Skippy the Wire Fox Terrier) peering into their icebox.
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