No, @CharAznabIe:disqus - you were right, Emeril was the first host of How to Boil Water. His version later mutated into The Essence of Emeril, while the name was kept and revamped for Cathy Lowe to "teach" Sean Donnellian the basics of cooking - while contemplating how lovely he'd look with one of her chef's knives…

@CharAznabIe:disqus - Mario Batale didn't get great until he started cooking for a couple fellow chefs/foodies. On his own he looked stiff and uncomfortable talking to the camera - fixing rustic Italian meals for Rocco DiSpirito, Mario Cantone, Isaac Mizrahi, Tony Bourdain, Jake and Maggie Gyllenhaal, Gwyneth Paltrow,…

@avclub-d03949f8495bc0a1dc74310484c5f530:disqus - I couldn't agree more. I used to love the cooking shows and the History/Background of Food shows like Taste and later Good Eats. No doubt Alton Brown turned out a better show, but I loved how gamely David Rosengarten would inform us of the history of angel food cake,…

because for some reason people would rather just make fake vanilla than squeeze a beaver's ass.

The Spice Extends Life.
The Spice Expands Consciousness.
The Spice is Vital to Space Travel -

I have to disagree with her about that, @joey_lee:disqus - different varieties of salt do have different flavor undertones to them thanks to the minerals that are also in the salt water…if they're actually different varieties, and not Morton's Coarse Salt with pink or grey food coloring in them! (Which, if you buy…

Real vanilla, not that cheap probably fake crap they put in bargain-brand ice cream, @Tyrannorabbit:disqus .

@kevinliebler:disqus - it's like DNA Results While-U-Wait! In reality, if the authorities are lucky, DNA results take between three and six weeks - more likely, you're looking at a few months unless the result have a fire lit under them.

@dribniar:disqus - you mean…Pedophile Russian Pizza Parlors run by Bernie Sanders - who's secretly Vladimir Putin's mole?!?!?!?

Oh, is that what we're calling it now, @avclub-e5e75678d9346d88878b7c95b97eac68:disqus …?

I still list Quark Xpress on my resume, @avclub-e56f3c7f583392a5b6796622b4e04cd8:disqus - also ::cough:: Adobe PageMaker….

Those of us with a Desktop Publishing background understood it, @avclub-e5e75678d9346d88878b7c95b97eac68:disqus .

@disqus_sD2IxKIj1Q:disqus - There was a Spider-Man title around 2005 or 2005 where old Spidey was mourning Mary Jane's death because of the radiation in his semen, where in the comic itself you saw the shadowy outline of his penis, which was basically shadowed out of existence in the collection (I didn't read that one…

Jeez, back when I first bought comics they were twelve cents (a quarter if you bought a "Super-Special Double Issue!" that was 64 pages, and had a main story, and usually several reprints from previous decades). I remember the stink when prices went up from twelve to fifteen cents….

Oh, I remember that, @avclub-ed0871ac01726144474982051e55c5f4:disqus !

The downside to volumes is that sometimes content that snuck past the editor of a particular title gets fogged or mosiac'd or clumsily cut in the volume because Quesada or Bendis got his knickers in a twist over it once it was out, @princeowales:disqus .

@avclub-aee77320aa1d2c42708e8b3ae730ef03:disqus - All RIGHTY, then!

Reminds me of a bit in William L. DeAndrea's Matt Cobb mystery Killed On the Ice, @Lurid_Jester:disqus - a Japanese-American figure skater (based on Kristi Yamaguchi, though I didn't know that then) is confronted by a pretentious Symbology Professor who tells her she can't be Japanese because she doesn't talk like a…

You got me, @orsonhyde:disqus - it's not as if there aren't plenty of talented Asian actresses, or if they had to have Emma Stone because they needed her to make the movie, they should have made her the Caucasian stepdaughter of a Korean/American military family.

So they are - and when people are casting shows starring the Gorn and the Silurians, I would happily agitate for Representation by casting Benedict Cumberbatch as them!