Here in Beijing, I haven’t yet purchased a dish-drying rack because I keep forgetting to search for them when I go to the supermarket. So, my temporary strategy for cleaning dishes has been to handwash them first, then dry them with a towel and leave them along the wide windowsill in my kitchen.
Here’s why that’s a bad idea:
Ah, acid rain.


Bridget O'Donnell, 24, is a designer for the