Reaper digital audio workstation has also dropped the use of master/slave nomenclature in version 6.12, released today.

Shredded or julienned granny smith apple wouldn’t be a bad addition here either. Or chayote, but I think you’d need to blanch it briefly.

I have personally eaten cherries that taste/smell of the benzaldehyde compound in artificial cherry flavor. However, they were (a) perfectly ripe and directly off a tree and (b) sour “pie” cherries, not the so-called “sweet” cherries found in supermarkets (Bings or Rainers usually), which, as far as I’m concerned…

Public beaches have public restrooms, water fountains, handrails, and traffic-flow bottlenecks like access paths and stairways. You gonna wipe sunblock all over your face now?

Also, those lifeguards have to be ready to do CPR on strangers. How are we protecting them?

Sorry, I remain unconvinced that “being able to go…

The salad that is one sliced avocado, two supremed grapefruits, and a huge pile of wild arugula, dressed with olive oil, salt, and shaved parmesan. 

There was a lot of me-learning-things in that post. Good footnotes.

Icemakers! Been there.

So there are lots of brands of refrigerator/freezers, but it turns out they almost all use some variation of the same basic ice-making unit. Replacements on eBay are about fifty bucks and it will take you less than 20 minutes to swap the new one in.

Since the prohibition is the FDA’s (not the Red Cross’s), lying on the form might constitute a violation of Federal law? I mean, it’s probably not something they’d ever prosecute for, but with this crowd who knows, right?

Heinz Hot Ketchup.

No, not the “hot & spicy” stuff where they just mixed Tabasco sauce into it. Before that.

There’s been one in Glendale within walking distance of our house for a couple years now. For a while they were running a $5 combo lunch deal on Thursdays, and we went for that on a semi-regular basis. It always felt, though, like that was some kind of loss leader for them and at some point last year they ditched it. T…

This was apparently the way Americans did it in the ’50s before (I would guess) Juila Child came along.

I was watching a black-and-white TV sitcom from the era, and at one point one of the characters asks another if they have the ingredients for a cheese omelet in the pantry. Yes, he replies, we have eggs, cheese,…

Cats plural.

Well, this club is formed. Spread the word on menus nationwide.

I’m for em!

How do you feel about frilly toothpicks?

It is so good.

How about some love for the fine-ass threads on Cleavon Little ?

.... versus “assumes you live near a restaurant supply house that is open to the public.” Many aren’t.

RestaurantDepot/Jetro, for instance, is “exclusively open to operators of the food businesses and nonprofit organizations” and their signage promises restaurateurs “You won’t see your customers shopping here!”…

If she said that shit around me, by the time I got through with her her name’d be “Rn Grly.”

Sour cherries — the kind meant for pies and not frequently encountered in American supermarkets — do in fact taste a lot more like the “wild cherry” flavor one encounters in Life Savers and the like. My source: having one of those trees with five or six different cultivars grafted to a single trunk. I picked one and…