I’m tipping my hand a bit, but my grandfather’s family were Italians from San Francisco, so my vote is for Marnie. No disrespect to the other breads, but there’s just so much history in those sourdough starters, and I almost lose my mind when I smell fresh rosemary wafting off a pan of golden, bubble-filled focaccia…

Cook’s Illustrated, the print magazine of America’s Test Kitchen, used baking soda in their sloppy joe recipe, which I made last week. The ratio was 1/2 teaspoon of baking soda per pound of meat (or about 3 grams to 450 grams). The recipe calls for mixing the baking soda with a little water to make a slurry, and then…

As cheese for breakfast says, we have Brazilians in Philadelphia AND we like to party in the streets (e.g., the 2008 baseball World Series, the 2008 election of Barack Obama, Super Bowl LII).

I was going to respond to this (see screen name), but I’m a week late and you did so perfectly. I, too, endorse the layering of water ice and soft serve ice cream/frozen custard, often called a “gelati”, which is bad Italian but everyone in Philly will understand it.

Is this a regional thing or did I just miss out? I never saw this apple pie + cheese combo living on the West Coast, but a co-worker from upstate New York said her family always did this. I’m curious where this is and isn’t commonplace.

I’ve had similar experiences. Two examples: my neighbor, whom I love dearly, once tried to tell me, a person of Italian descent, how much salt to put in the pasta water I had just started. Unsolicited, she talked about the salinity of seawater and so on, and I just laughed and ignored her. Honey, I got this. There is…

Doing it once isn’t nice, but doing it again after being SPECIFICALLY TOLD why it wasn’t cool is ridiculous.  What if the allergic person didn’t know?  You were right to shun them.

Apologies for the late comment. I read the article at the beginning of September but it’s only today that I was able to visit a Japanese market near me and buy two packaged baumkuchen from the refrigerator case. It’s a tasty treat, but I find it hilarious that each cake is 100 grams and the packaging suggests four…

I agree with your overall point - there is so much variety here - but none of those other ethnic cuisines stand out as uniquely Pennsylvanian. I don’t find Amish or Pennsylvania Dutch food gross so much as boring. If you like seasoning in your food, look elsewhere. It sounds like you’ve had enough exposure to the…

Kiko Lorran, the Brazilian chef on Bravo’s Below Deck Mediterranean, made his signature moqueca for charter guests. It seemed popular, but unfortunately, Kiko’s non-Brazilian crewmates as well as Andy Cohen kept calling it “moo-caca”, which made it sound significantly less appetizing.

True story: when I was an undergrad at UCLA, Greg Graffin was the teaching assistant for one of my biology classes. This was around 1989-1990 when he was working on his master’s degree. His name seemed familiar, but I didn’t put it together right away. I was not very into punk music then, although I saw them perform…

Based on my admittedly limited experience, it’s not texture or consistency, it’s taste, or maybe the way it coats your tongue and dries out your mouth. I had an Argentinian friend who introduced me to alfajores, little sandwich cookie-like things with dulce de leche (milk caramel) spread between the biscuits, which…

My ludicrous road trip was centered around a 50^th birthday party. Sorry this is long, but the trip was memorable because of the various types of ridiculousness piled on top of one another. My partner and I live in Philadelphia, we have some friends in the Poconos (northeast Pennsylvania) and the party is in the DC…

Not to nitpick because you make a good point, but this incident occurred on the Pennsylvania side of the Delaware River, not New Jersey. However, a similar statute exists under Title 18 § 2706 of the Statutes of Pennsylvania.

I’ll spare you from having to listen to this shambling interview, but as AutoBox, Roll Out! said here, he mentioned the bipartisan First Step Act of 2018 for criminal justice reform. He also mentioned the data on black unemployment, which he cherry-picks because he not only refuses to give any credit to his predecessor…

I appreciate your clarification! I have had herbal tea brewed with it, but I never ate them out of hand. Thanks for the tip.

Where I live, there is an old historic church with enormous mulberry trees in the churchyard. When I visited a couple of months ago, the trees were heavily laden with thousands of ripe berries, and hundreds more on the ground. I plucked a few within reach, stained my hands, and got weird looks from my friends when I…

I didn’t understand this either, but my interpretation was that Shinkoda wasn’t saying it, but rather paraphrasing what Loeb said to justify Loeb’s decision not to develop the Asian characters’ storylines. Either way, it’s twisted logic based on bad assumptions, and I agree with you.

Of course Yoho declined to comment. Lucky for us, he’s retiring from Congress after this year. The Hill article quoted Yoho’s fellow Republican Rep. Roger Williams of Texas

In answer to South Park’s zen koan “What Would Brian Boitano Do?”, I took his Food Network coffee & donuts milkshake recipe and froze it all the way to ice cream in my freezer. No lie, it was delicious, and you can use any flavor cake donut you want. You’re welcome.