He says that, despite some recent commodity fluctuations, the price of food in industrialized nations continues to drop, so there's less incentive to think about what's in the fridge, or make an effort to avoid cooking more than we need.

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You wander in at sunset after a hard day's lounging in the sun and pull a chilled tureen out of the fridge.

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Onions roasted like this will keep for a week or more in the fridge, so it's fine to make them well ahead of time.

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Although you could keep it in the fridge in a pinch, it's really better to use it right now.

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With the help of its tiny township government in Shunde county, its founders, Pan Ning and Wang Guoduan, turned it from the 42nd-largest fridge maker in 1984 into China's biggest in six years.

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Mike Leigh's work remains as relevant to Britain today as it was in 1977 when Beverly famously put the Beaujolais in the fridge.

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