Glass with Class

This past weekend, DMR - one of my most loyal readers - presented me with an elegant glass compotier. Perfect for fridge-a-lade, lemon curd, or any other home-made confiture or conserve you might care to name, it is far more aesthetically pleasing than the stockpiling solution I had been using previously, a plastic take-out curry container with the Sharpied® designation beef stock indelibly etched into its lid.

What DMR could not have known was the uncommon degree to which her cadeau was both timely and appropriate. Having just cleaned out the refrigerator of commercially-produced and gluten-polluted jars and bottles, there are now two entirely empty compartments in the right-hand door of the cold chest, waiting to be adorned with heavenly home-made preserves and condiments, free of the arcane labeling adopted by so many of our alimentary producers these days.

Given this blank slate with which to work, I am now seriously considering limiting all future storage to containers that, in the spirit of William Morris, are necessary, useful, and sublime.

For if beauty is truth, who needs the FDA?