I was 25 or 26, working full time, going to school full time, volunteering 20+ hours a week and trying to have a social life when my body went “HmmmNOPE” and I developed the autoimmune disease I’ll have for the rest of my life. It’s been more than a decade and there are ups and downs but I’ll never really be okay…

Yes. I’m surprised they haven’t come back into style yet.

So basically at least one of two things happened: either there was too much oil or the pan didn’t get spend enough time at high temperature. Either way the polymerization process didn’t complete which gave you a sticky bottom. The good news is it’s totally fixable. If you really desperately wanted to you could stick…

One once straight up told my boyfriend he couldn’t feel cold like white people. Because...he’s from somewhere hot? And that’s how that works because...science?

AHA. I haven’t heard English as part of my everyday life in a long time, and recently when I’d catch American TV (usually sitcom reruns) it would sound like they were sped up just a tiny bit, but I doubted myself saying it was just that I’m not used to hearing English and so it sounds faster.

wow, just milk with no cornstarch or other stabilizer (maybe the UHT process stabilizes it a bit)? That also sounds like a pain in the ass. Rolled ice cream has yet to hit my corner of the globe but I’ve made enough *&^% tempered chocolate cigarettes to know when something’s gonna be a hard pass from me.

Fun fact: Before it was called a Baked Alaska it was called a Norwegian Omelet.

Damn. I thought pterodactyls could fly without paying for coach.

Obviously I’m biased but if he wants to cut out maiz because it’s from Mexico, I wanna be in the room when he finds out about chocolate and hot sauce.

I’m sure I’ve told the story before, it was so traumatic! And then I felt like an ass for crying —really only a few squeezed out but still— because really, she didn’t know. You’re smart for leaving notes. I made sure to tell her about our teapot, but not the pan.

First, you were BORN to wear that shade of blue. Second, what’s with the no eating corn? Is he one of those fools who says you shouldn’t eat anything that wasn’t originally from Africa?

I mean I guess? If your loins quiver at the thought of an extended and fussy seasoning process and it brings you joy, go for it. I’ll just be hanging out with my manteca or neutral oil. I swear lard works best but it does have a certain musky presence when heated over 500, so I only go hard on the lard if it’s been…

I’m dying because it’s almost definitely not going to screen in my country and I just wanna throw handfuls of my money to everyone involved in this whole thing.

The only thing I feel any kinda way about is the Scientology thing. I think they probably have a companionate marriage, but who cares? After 23 years and counting of people trying to tear them down, they are still proud, together and happily boring. Good for them.

Mandy Moore has never looked better in her life.

Oh no! I’m fortunate enough to have a couple of his large important pieces, but those enamel animal bracelets —especially the ones from the 60's— will always be The Ones That Got Away. Damn me and my giant hamwrists.

Of course he got parole. How else is he going to resist at a routine traffic stop when the body cameras are malfunctioning?

If you happen to be in Mexico and wanting to prepare ceviche, make sure you buy whole filets, not fish ground for ceviche. We’re not the best at labeling fin fish to begin with and if it’s ground up, forget it. It’ll still probably be fine to eat —there’s a ceviche and mariscos tostada stand in my neighborhood that…

Any canned beverage and maybe most especially diet soda is a pleasure lost on me, but damn, let a girl live. That being said, how do you find it affects your tastebuds? IME most of my culinary friends who drink a lot of diet soda can’t gauge for sweetness or acidity as well as non soda people, but it’s a relatively…