Haha, WASP "soul food." That's what I'm calling it now!

As a Canadian:

My Mom still has hers somewhere—and I'm in my 50's. I think they were required cookware from the 50's to the 80's or something.

My Italian-American mom would tell me that she'd make these gelatin dishes as a way to "fit in" when Americans came over :-)

Yeah, being a Jewish and Italian Brooklynite, this is a giant chunk of white people culture I. just. don't. get.

The website is pure joy. Check it out sometime. My apologizes to your future productivity. http://www.lileks.com/index.html

The sandwich cake is alive and well in Scandinavia. It's called a smörgåstårta (in Swedish anyway).

Ahhhh my mother had the same casserole dish as in that pic of the hungry boys thing! PROUSTIAN FLASHBACK!

LOVE the Almay liquid eyeliner. The applicator makes it so much easier than those long wand liquid eyeliners.

The author also explained that the obituary is a way of bringing the issues of child abuse, and the fact that its allowed to happen in such a horrific way, to the public sphere. It's not just a petty reaction to a slight, it's a call for attention and action.

But you can only speak for yourself. You cannot and shouldn't tell someone how they should react because they aren't you. Everyone has their own way of dealing with this kind of shit.

Yeah, OBLIGATORY.

On Amazon. An invaluable read about how "ignoring" your money stands for the inability to grow up, take responsibility, and relate in a general grown up way to financial matters.

After you hit menopause and your hormone levels change, for many women this means your hair becomes drier and more brittle, your scalp dries up, and your hair thins out. The shorter hair in older women is often because long hair simply isn't possible or flattering due to these changes.

"Ew, gross, Madonna is SO OLD and Miley IS SUCH a SKANK. They should just shop at Target, stop performing and sit around talking shit about other people that actually DO things....like me!" - All these basic commentators

I can't pick out exactly what it is, either. He hasn't gotten Alcohol Bloat Face like Val Kilmer, he's lost his hair but he accepts it and doesn't try to pretend it's still there, he's stayed in good physical shape. It's like he got some gilding from the Greek gods there a while ago and it's slowly worn off.

I love the gentleness of the way this question is posed. I wish the whole internet were this way instead of WHADDA HELL DA MATTER WITH YOU UR STOOPIT.

This story really has been the most depressing, vision-of-a-terrible-dystopian-Handmaid's-Tale-future I have ever seen.

I think pointing out that it's basically a trade is a good point - yes, schools exist that prepare you for the running of a kitchen, budgeting, cost control, etc. but most chefs and cooks are doing the kind of apprenticeship and on the job training that you also see for plumbers, electricians, and mechanics.

This I never understood: Speaking very generally, women are expected to be able to cook at least a little, and to be the primary cooks in the home. Men, not so much. While this is very gradually changing, women still do most food preparation at home in the U.S., if anyone does it at all.