Since it was a rainy day not good for much else, I finally went to check out Crate and Barrel and made an interesting discovery: they sell Frontera salsas! My college roommate Brian introduced me to it, and he and Merle took me to Rick Bayless’s restaurant the last time I was in Chicago. A very cool find, which was unfortunately lost on the uninpressed woman standing next to me.
I was also looking for a liquor cabinet/wine rack to replace the trusty one I built in college, but $1000 was a little rich for my blood. (That’s a lot of Finger Lakes reisling!) A woman from work summed up the predicament well a few years ago while furnishing her first place out of school: “I have Crate and Barrel tastes, but an Ikea budget.”
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