The Bite:
Use cloth napkins religiously. You'll save trees and add a touch of class to your tabletop - even if sinful foods like Cheez Whiz are what's on the menu.
How can you set a heavenly table?
06.08.2007
Submitted by tmeronek on Fri, 06/08/2007 - 12:01am.
The Benefits:
- Paper savings. Americans use an average of 2,200 paper napkins per person per year.
- Elegance, that is, if you don't use your napkin to blow your nose (you heathen Biter, you).
- Cash savings. It's actually cheaper to throw cloth napkins in the wash than to buy paper ones. Amen to that!
Personally Speaking:
The Bite's newest team member, Jenifer Morgan, has a secret talent: She can fold cloth napkins into different animal shapes, à la origami. She's strangely available only for Quinceañeras and National Bird Day celebrations.
Wanna Try:
- Transylvanian Images Vintage Napkins - off-white hemp-cotton blend; hand-spun and vampire-free ($40/set of 4).
- Fiberactive Quilt Company Organic Cotton Napkins - made by laid-off textile workers in North Carolina, in 11 fab colors ($37/set of 4).
- Greenfeet Hemp Napkins - hand-dyed hemp, available in 5 mix-and-match colors ($7/each).
- Global Exchange Balinese Cotton Napkin Set - fair-trade, produced by a women's co-op in Indonesia, in red or green ($23/set of 4).
Cocktail Fact
Researchers at Cornell University have created a napkin that changes color when it detects biohazards such as E. coli.
Bang For The Bite
If 10,000 Biters use one less napkin per day, in a year we'll conserve the annual paper use of 58 Americans.
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