This was magnificent. Thank you.

Because I don’t cook a lot of Latin American food, I buy my sofrito from a jar. Tastes great to me! I love to cook (and am lucky enough to have no physical or other barriers) and often use shortcut ingredients and a food processor to chop large batches of any vegetable. I hate that anyone made you feel your cooking or…

I’m not a huge fan of cold noodle dishes or of cold soup, so I can’t get behind that. But laab gai is great cold, even if it is traditionally served hot. So if you want a Thai fix, consider that. A scoop of laab in a crisp cup of lettuce might just hit the spot.

If it so much as requires boiling a pot of water, all bets are off. If I can boil a cup of water in the nuker and pour it over to cook the noodles, I’ll think about it, but put a pot on the stove? Nope.

Yep. In 2007, I moved to a place that a few years earlier had been struck by a “hundred-year flood.” And in the four years I lived there, we had two more that were even worse. In the years since I’ve left, they generally have a huge, “hundred-year flood” once every 3-4 years. Tragically, this is the new normal given…

I wish this was around 10 years ago when I got married.

Thighs are absolutely the best part of the chicken, and the best part of the thigh is the skin (when it’s fried) — especially that one ridge along one side of it, that gets amazingly chewy/crisp. I can totally see going for “Thighstop” (I hate this name, btw...it sounds like some kind of device to prevent guys from…

Ha! In yer face, Locke! Always knew your comeuppance would come sooner rather than later.

“So that’s what men are doing when they take thirty-minute showers. I had no idea!”

No, there is not, and yes, you are.

You are being a NY pizza snob.

I’m annoyed people want to shake hands again.

When I was a shopgirl, I was at the tail-end of the “retail sales is a vocation” era.

I am probably some kind of sandwich snob (hell, I know I am) but I just can’t get behind any chain sub shop. Subway, Jersey Mike’s, Jimmy John’s - none of them hold a candle to getting an authentic sub from a mom-and-pop Italian deli.

I think we talk about In-N-Out so much as a response to hearing endlessly about the eastern fast food and fast-food-adjacent chains that get a looot of talk from a predominantly east-coast focused media. I’ve read plenty of stories here about White Castle, Culvers, Steak n’ Shake, White Castle, Waffle House, Wawa,…

Customers have got so much worse in the last year. There’s a whole new repetiour of scumbag behaviour - not wearing masks, touching you, lectures on conspiracies, coughing and spitting at you, the insane level of anger about deliveries going wrong, attempting to break lockdown to return things, demanding we visit…

I used to work the midnight to eight shift at a 7-11 in NJ.

“The customer is always right” was never intended for *the customer*. It was for the business serving the customer. As in, don’t include mayo if they don’t want it or let them substitute salad for fries* or give them a booth if they want it...that sort of thing.

Not to go full geezer (I’m not quite 60) but in my youth every kid had a part-time after school job to earn a few bucks for fun, saving for a car, etc. All the fast-food, waitressing, and retail sales jobs in my town were held by high school kids.