Yes, I’ve spent 30+ years studying jewels, especially historic costume jewelry, and that’s definitely a blackamoor, probably from Nardi, who was the most famous of the Venetian blackamoor designers. They’ve cycled around for a couple hundred years but the last big moment they had was from about the end of the Belle…

When I would drive through California and see all these almond and orange groves with big signs saying Another Farmer For Trump I was always like...what’s going to happen when the Oaxaquenos can’t or won’t come and you have to pay Braydon and Madison 10.50/hr to pick your oranges and pray to white gun-totin’ Jesus…

I knew my Christmas cake was juuust about right when I opened the cazuela to feed it and the dog got woozy from the fumes.

I swear I hated those damn Dansk cookie tins full of buttons or expired coupons for Shredded Wheat for my entire life and then I must’ve been visited by the Ghost of Aunties Yet to Come because one morning I woke up and was like “I WILL KILL MYSELF AND EVERYONE AROUND ME BEFORE I PAY FOR A DECORATIVE TIN.”

This speaks to me, but then again the best gift I’ve received this season is my boyfriend disinfecting all the doorknobs and light switches when he started to get sick. Disinfected doorknobs are my love language.

One of my oldest friends is at his house on the regular. Believe the blinds.

Marzipan pigs! I would trade my entire kingdom for a proper marzipan pig.

Sprouts had a huge moment a few years ago stateside andI think they’re are sort of seen as “over” by people who care about those things (the same people who were all about vinho verde in 2007 but wouldn’t be caught dead with anything but rose now) which is a damn shame because they’re so delicious.

and Japan, too.

If a woman is older than about 23 and her favorite movie is still B@T then that is all I need to know about her. See also: guys who love Catcher in the Rye. You might be a perfectly delightful person, but we can’t be friends.

You can also do this with grapefruit if you use three blanches instead of two.

Right? If the food isn’t made by someone with arthritis, a bad hip, sensible shoes, and many many opinions on your weight/hair/relationship status, why would you even eat it?

Thank you for posting this and I’m glad the Glow Up is going to be an inclusive site. Since we’re still in the growing pains phase, let me mention I’m not sure it’s furthering your goal of inclusivity to (probably inadvertently) imply people should be ashamed about their weight. Women’s bodies, especially black and…

I’m a big girl (size 24, with a F cup), and I am 100% team carry on. It does involve some strategic planning —no jeans, for example— and I tend to travel in areas that don’t get terribly cold, but it can be done without too much trouble, even for several weeks.

I tend to pack one pair of knit pants (if I’m packing two…

Use golden syrup plus a splash of vanilla. It’ll work a treat.

I’m just sad for all those perfectly lovely sex workers out here minding their own and had to be associated with these two chuckleheads.

Right, that’s what I was saying. Mexican vanilla ~used~ to have tonka in it, but now that it’s regulated (technically since 1954 but they really only started cracking down on tonka in vanilla in the late 90's/2000's), Molina uses vanillin to replace that and amp up the vanilla flavor. No one’s looking down on you for…

Vanillin comes from lignin, which is pretty cool and not going to do you any harm but it’s a replacement not for vanilla bean in Mexican vanilla, but for tonka bean. Back in the day, producers would stretch/enhance their vanilla with tonka beans. Tonka beans have a more-vanilla-than-vanilla profile thanks to a high…

I’ve said this before when Chappelle came out with his two new specials: You can’t pull off a Paul Mooney set unless you’re actually Paul Mooney. He makes it look easy so you get all these chuckleheads with varying degrees of talent out here trying to play at his level and showing every inch of their ass.

It’s been a minute since I lived in the US, but there were plenty of Christmas tree farms in Virginia, the Carolinas, Tennessee and Georgia. You’re probably right about the South, west of the Mississippi though. I’m on the west coast Mexico and my trees always come from Oregon.