It's The United States Regional Cook Book. (It's an interesting cookbook, not an interesting name.) It must have been really popular at one point because there are clearly multiple printings of it. And there are enough of them floating around that I think you can even find used copies of it on Amazon.
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This really is a wonderful pair of comments.

I was also really confused by it until the article got to the bit about it being from St Louis. Mostly I just figured, hey look, I live in Minneapolis and I know we don't do that but you can't trust those guys over the river, they might try something like that.

Depending on how you do it it might not be that difficult to do a food tour of the US, or at least if you didn't try to do it all in one trip. There's a lot of variation, especially when it comes to cities, but there really are some pretty distinct food traditions and it wouldn't be too hard to hit each of them.

It says something that after reading the list of St Louis regional delicacies my first thought was "well, I guess a brain sandwich could be good". That was literally the most appealing sounding thing in the article.

"Concept album" basically means "album that is more than just a bunch of songs not really connected to each other" at this point, so I think it's fair to say that basically all of his albums since, at the very least, All Hail West Texas have been concept albums. And you could make a reasonable argument that more than…

But the idea that this Claremont, California-based band known for ..

Well thanks, now I'm glad 9/11 happened. I hope you're happy.

That baffled me as well. I certainly remember it, but my best friend is an actual acupuncturist so I just assumed it was me, and the fact that I probably haven't gone a month since it was released without hearing someone make a kiss of the dragon joke.

The 2015 Point Break remake is kind of amazing for how out of time it feels. It's like it was made by people who didn't realize that 2002 had ended and there were years after it.

After living through the first ones, wouldn't you?

It's like a crazy exaggerated version of the original, too, with an even blander and less memorable* white-hero, and an even cooler frenemy of color.

Damn straight.

Yep - it's a way of getting extra oxygen into the engine so you can burn more fuel.

Also the time between realizing that 60 seconds was a hit and the release of F&F isn't really long enough to make much of a movie, barring Roger Corman/Golan and Globus stuff. And while it's not exactly a high budget movie F&F has way too many stunts/driving stuff/etc. to have been knocked out overnight.

But how else was he going to achieve whatever doing that achieved? He would never have been able to do whatever it was he did with that without it!

They especially could have used it to take Bill a month or two into the future, breaking the link that the monks had and achieving pretty much the exact thing they spent the rest of the episode trying to do. Then again that applies to a really large number of episodes, so…

He talks a good game about not liking soldiers or guns, but when it gets down to the wire he has always been pretty comfortable resorting to them as well. After all, "you moron human soldiers waving around guns! get out of the way while I… oh crap! shoot it! shoot it while I run away!" was the plot of an awful lot…

I was sort of hoping we just wouldn't see Alan ever again.

The helmet thing drove me nuts, especially due to the complete non-reaction of the woman in there with him. It left me baffled about why they were wearing them in the first place, if someone just casually taking theirs off didn't result in some kind of "what they f$&# are you doing!? reaction (followed by a "no you ca…