Bravo for getting kids started with cooking. It’s a great way to become more adventurous about food, and also encourages both healthful eating and an understanding of household budgeting later in life. I didn’t really learn to cook until I was older, so I didn’t make meals for the family as a kid. But I did watch my…

I’m glad that NSF and NASA are responding, but unless these regulations are enforced and offenders start getting fired, their “stern reminders” won’t be effective.

I’m sure they’ll look great even after kids spill ketchup, chocolate milk, and finger paint all over them.

Trump talks like a belligerent drunk. But he apparently doesn’t drink, and I don’t know whether that makes him more or less scary.

I remember eating one or two of those things back in the day, and never having the desire to do so again. I don’t remember exactly how the calories broke down, but the main reason the meals were under 300 calories is that the portions were minuscule. It was pretty much impossible to eat one without still being hungry…

I don’t get the anti-sriracha hate either. It’s just a condiment. Some people like it, some don’t. Good on some dishes, not so much on others. Maybe it’s just because people got tired of arguing over mayonnaise.

I’ve got three decades of age on you, and I was so concerned about this that I had my doctor order a measles antibody titer as part of my most recent routine blood test. Fortunately, I seem to be fine in that department. Either the none-too-effective first-generation measles vaccine I was given in 1963 was very…

I’d like to see one with garlic-roasted Brussels sprouts and a nice wedge of Gorgonzola. The milkshake, of course, would have to be chocolate.

That sure as hell qualifies as sexual harassment. Not to mention health misinformation, since there are other causes of bladder infections besides 1, 2, and 3.

It seems like we need to do a better job of reminding people that the dangers of binge drinking aren’t limited to car crashes and sexual assaults. It’s not like we can stop college students from getting themselves hammered, but people really need to be aware that excessive drinking can cause both lethal overdoses and…

Both victims were killed because a man considered his ex-girlfriend his property, and when she had a new man in her life, the ex considered him to have stolen his property. In a homicidal and suicidal rage, the ex destroyed both of them and himself.

They’re just standing up for the rights of obtuse white people to make everything all about themselves.

Sometimes our human capacity for self-delusion scares the living shit out of me. And few things facilitate it as openly and intensely as “facilitated communication”.

Yup. Mr. Sububi once did some work with a local health department, and one of their cases was a norovirus outbreak that was traced to a rather nice restaurant. (Short version: It probably happened because some staff members had handled bread rolls without gloves, and the management agreed to crack down on this…

Mr. Sububi and I really like their tofu sofritos. Now I’m wondering if I can find a clone of the recipe on line.

I like Chipotle, but as I’ve posted before, I don’t think of it as a Mexican restaurant. I think of it as a better-than-average fast food place with a Mexican theme, similar to Qdoba. When I want Mexican food, I go to a family-run Mexican restaurant near my home. Chipotle is for when I need to get lunch in the mall…

I turned 15 in 1971, and I don’t remember seeing clothes like this on my peers. Maybe the paisley and the lacy dresses, but not the shoes or the big hats.

This looks like one of those studies that finds an association, and then gets picked up by the popular press, which oversimplifies the findings to the point of meaninglessness. For example:

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One of my favorite movie scenes ever: The wizard duel between Severus Snape and Gilderoy Lockhart in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. Could anything be more entertaining than Alan Rickman and Kenneth Branagh chewing the same scenery? They seemed to be having the time of their lives.