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Time to drop your membership in the Clean Plate Club. Finishing every last lick of food isn’t saving starving kids in other countries and it definitely isn’t saving your waistline. “I advise my clients to follow the three bites rule,” says Chelsey Amer, RD, in Manhattan. “This means you should leave three bites left over on your plate at every meal. You won’t even miss them, I promise, and you’ll lose weight,” she says.

And there could be more deals to come: Transactions in this space are a fraction of what they have been over the past few years in makeup and skin care. If midmarket producers are to kick-start demand, they will need to find ways to incorporate these trends, said Deborah Aitken, analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence. That’s trickier at lower price points, because a scent created by a top perfumer typically costs thousands of dollars. The global firms should be able to manage. Producers and retailers have done a good job of taking premium trends — such as contouring and Korean face masks — into the mass market. There are already some early promising signs, such as the bottle engraving service now offered by The Perfume Shop.

We got rid of pop-tops on aluminum beverage cans. Now we need to severely lessen our use of plastic. Use a water bottle that is uniquely yours. Buy the permanent grocery bags and use them. (I miss the heavy-duty paper bags … found a lot of uses for them.)

Also in the event, and in order of placing, were Alejo Muniz, Fred Pattachia, CJ Hobgood and local wildcard Abdulla ‘Fuku’ Areef.

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In Phlur’s process, that crucial question actually comes second, and they leave answering it to master perfumers who were initially perplexed by Phlur’s approach. "They were like, wait, what’s the olfactive direction? What do you want this to smell like? Because that’s usually what they’re given. And we’re like, I don’t know, you’re the artist, you tell me what Moab smells like," Korman said.

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“So I go back to the motel. Next day, I get a taxi to the airport, my luggage is in the back. The driver gets into me for going so short a distance. A twenty-buck fare. He’s mumbling shit. Want me to get out? Right before we get out he tells me he’s from Ethiopia da da da. Whatever, all good, he’s talking, talking as I get out and then he takes off with all my luggage. Are you fucking kidding me? So I Uber back to the taxi bull pen. Eight lines. Fifty cars. They’re all yelling at each other. And I tell ’em, one of your taxi guys has my shit, the Ethiopian dude. The guy there says there’s so many cars and so many different races and I’m standing there going fuck, fuck, fuck. Then, because my iPad was in one of the bags, I tracked it to Hollywood. I go to my car and I’m flying towards Hollywood where this fucker is and then he comes back to the bull pen, turns off my iPad, but I’m already back there. I’ve fucking got him. The motherfucker. I tell him, what’s up motherfucker! You turned off my iPad! He said he didn’t know whose it was.

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