Merry, merry! It's time for the annual edition of the Hater's Guide to the Williams-Sonoma Catalog.
Still Counting Baluts
Since my social media handle is "pantrycooking", guess I'm the one to post this.
" . . . But we do that job very differently. 'US critics write as if they are the inheritors of the mantle of Tom Wolfe or Hemingway,' says Giles Coren, who reviews for the Times in the UK. 'They g...
The penultimate skit of last nights SNL was strange and kind of funny. A couple (Scarlet Johanssen / Bowen Yang) nervously walk into a restaurant. When they get to the bar we then find out they a...
Just saw this last night. One of the most painful things I've read. Here's a preview: "My landlord needed to fix the sink handle or something and asked if I had a knife, then proceeded to grab m...
A Guide to Asian Restaurants, by Ali Wong Excerpted to The Vulture, October 2019 The following is an excerpt from Ali Wong’s new book, Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets, and Advice for...
For all you new Instant Pot owners . . .
A couple of days ago SNL had a commercial parody of a fast food chicken restaurant called Bok Bok. As it turns out it mascot looks like Momo, a disturbing internet meme. It was kind of funny in a...
Enjoyed the taste test bit. "Are you too good for Arby's?"
" . . . Instead doctors suggest substituting donuts for romaine. Safe varieties include jelly-filled, custard, glazed, cake, chocolate long john, powdered, Boston creme, sprinkled, and maple bacon....
Make America Eat Again, The Art of the Meal Oct 13 Near Ghirardelli Square, San Francisco Only 16 tickets remaining at this moment My friend and extraordinary chef, Andrea Rappaport, is hosti...
" . . . The researchers found the consumption of any kind of dairy to be associated with a 2 percent lower risk of death from any cause, while the consumption of a dairy diet of mostly cheese was a...
Showed this to my dude today and he was like, "What's a Mallard reaction?"
An amusing read in these un-fun political times.
"Veal is a very young beef and, like a very young girlfriend, it's cute but boring and expensive." - P.J. O'Rourke
A young Italian pastry chef creates amusing food-as-"landscape" scenes and posts them on Instagram. He's inspired by Christopher Boffoli. (If you haven't seen Boffoli's book "Big Appetites: Tiny Pe...
This piece expresses (and amplifies) how I feel nearly every time a restaurant serves me housemade ketchup. ". . . it comes with our signature house-made ketchup. That’s right. The ketchup here ...
Lifted from https://www.reddit.com/r/minnesota/comments/51sytf/most_minnesotan_pan_of_bars_ever/?st=it4dc6a7&sh=5fd3531d We Minnesotans are an odd lot.
I enjoyed this one as it had a little bit more at stake than your average YouTube taste test video.