Kevin, you should be so, so proud. I tend to avoid chef docs because I’m not trying to look into that emotionally wrecked funhouse mirror too deeply, but I just got a chance to watch it today and I cried probably four or five times and could go again just thinking about it. Thank you for making this. You did…

What’s interesting to me is how American audiences seem to enjoy and financially reward the Gordon Ramsay Act, with all the shouting and yelling and abuse (as I’ve said, I’ve only seen clips). They wanted a Kitchen Simon Cowell and got Ramsay to play that role.

This is great. Also, incidentally, the only TV chef I give a damn about is Gordon Ramsay because he has always always always been good with supporting his female chefs. I can’t watch cooking shows because they give me panic attacks, but all the other female chefs I know who know him have said he’s the real deal, and…

I think the pickled herring can be a nostalgia thing, especially for older generations. My area has much of the highest quality, most desirable seafood in the world (most of which goes to Asia) and I still always have a jar of pickled herring in the fridge because it reminds me of my grandmother and great grandmother.…

When I first read it I assumed la teen EH kees and that’s still the sound it makes in my head (fwiw, in my part of Latin America I see “latin@” but never latinx). Yeah she shoulda googled, if not to avoid the appearance of foisting work she could’ve done herself onto the Latin-American community, then to at least…

Okay, in that case instead of the 3 for 30mxn strawberries we’ll get one kilo of valencias (4mxn as of yesterday) and we can split one vasito of coconut (2omxn) instead of having one of each. BUT if Sr Ch and I get into a horrible, relationship-destroying fight over the last piece of coco con chilito en polvo, on your…

I think we’d do surprisingly okay for our house of two on 30usd a month assuming we didn’t need to include drinking water or start from absolute zero with spices and condiments. If it’s 30 dollars per person per month I know we’d be just fine because that’s basically what we’d spend on groceries if I could ever kick…

I’ve always just assumed that she and Gwyneth both did what they had to do to get where they wanted, and it doesn’t make him less horrible or them less likable.

Re: Mexico. While it technically may be correct that the price of liability is built into the base rental price, if you don’t get the extra insurance I can promise you that 99% of the time they just will not rent to you. Also, driving in Mexico is An Experience and things happen. Get the extra insurance. IME the…

Yes. I got a car rental included with a vacation package about ten years ago and when I went to pick up my car, they wanted some huge amount for insurance AND to put a $3000usd hold on my card. I was like nah and we did the taxi and bus thing and had a great time.

Not a rich person, but I love real truffles and almost every grade of caviar from dirt cheap to sold-a-kidney, but I can see how it’s not everyone’s bowl of soup. That hundred dollar Conspicuous Consumption Meatball can go fuck itself though, if for no other reason* than it’s insulting to the integrity of the…

I’m so excited to see it tonight and throw some of that international box office money at it. It must be doing well because it’s already been out for a week and there are still sixteen showings daily here, while everything else they’re screening this week tops out at four showings per day.

Gods and Monsters all day forever.

• How do you plan your vacation meals? I don’t, but I probably should. I just want to eat everything all the time. When we’re traveling within Mexico we like to go to the same place for late breakfast every day if we can. It’s nice to become a regular and by day three or four it’s usually like “I don’t know, just make…

This is the sort of Can Do attitude I like to see!

A bunch of my friends went to the Noma pop-up in Mexico and loved the experience but I get the feeling they were slightly underwhelmed by the food itself though no one actually said anything. Also Rene Redzepi is the human manifestation of an eye roll/wank gesture emoji, so.

Excellent point.

Eh, she’s almost thirty. There’s nothing breakneck about it. Presumably she wants to be with her man a few years before they have kids, and although the whole Fertility Cliff thing is kind of a myth, conceiving (especially if she ends up needing treatment) does become harder after 35, so it makes sense for her to get…

On days I’m not in the kitchen, I have my I’m Working Scarf. If I am wearing my I’m Working Scarf and Señor Chávez starts bothering me, I take 50 pesos (so like, three bucks?) out of his wallet. Ask me where the milk is? 50 pesos. Ask me what I use to fix the thing when it makes the sound? 50 pesos. Obviously it…

To me it depends on the transgression. If you commit a non-violent crime, go to jail (or rehab or whatever) and when you get out you change your life and become a person who gives back to your community then to me that debt is paid.
When it comes to an adult harming or sexualizing a child, there’s no etch-a-sketch…