Thanks for the answer, Linda. The ENGLAND is stamped in ink under the glaze - there is a crackle finish over the entire bowl. I just have a regular camera, but I'm going to take some pictures of the bowl & the serving pieces. I don't know how to post them, but could email them to you to have a look at when I get them developed. Sue

I don't have pictures but... In the order of volume generated in our house per day/week 1. Recycle: we use 40qt + garbage can. We do not need to sort for the city. So all paper, glass, cans, plastic go into the recycle. 2. compost: We use 2 large green compost bins. We use bioliners so that they can be composted. one is for the backyard which only has fruit and vegie peels, and one is for the city which has meat and dairy. We scrape the dinner plates into the city compost bin. Most of the restaurants in the city does the same thing. The city picks up everything including used paper towels and pizza boxes in the "food waste" program. 3. garbage/trash: we use a much smaller garbage can, about the size of a grocery bag. if not emptied daily, it smells too much, ie chicken wrappers. So we don't need a large garbage can. I have the large recycle and the small garbage in the same pull out drawer. I have put the smaller garbage over the "shelf rack" so that the garbage is lifted up a little and closer to the top AND I store the garbage bags under the shelf storage rack. I keep the compost bins under the sink pull out. I could not find a system where all 4 boxes could fit in one pullout and NOT take up enormous amount of space so I lose storage. I had to accept that some under sink storage need be used for dealing with complicated garbage and compost. Hope this makes sense. If your city has a "food waste" program, you will find that you have very little trash that goes into landfill and you may need to modify the trash/recycle/compost bin system in your house if you chose to do the city compost.

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