We sent food back in Rome once and it was entirely my fault! We were at this really trendy sandwich cafe and after I translated the menu for my companion (it wasn't hard, it was just sandwiches with different fillings) one of them appealed to him except for one ingredient, and he asked me to ask the server if he could…

I just found a link to this post in the latest Kitchenette post comments section and would like to chime in almost three months later. My husband doesn't like eggs, thinks they're gross, but he'll eat egg noodles, breads and cakes that are eggy, French toast, anything that isn't obviously egg-based, like an omelette.…

I always wondered why I was asked if I had my library card with me. Of course I do, I'm in a library, hoping to score my book club's latest selection so I don't have to buy it (the choices are always terrible.) I didn't realize a license was acceptable. I always thought, Imagine being in a bookstore and before ringing…

Elizabeth McGovern has her moments. In one of the very first episodes she's basically doing slapstick very briefly when a visitor has to be taken back to his room, and you do see her feverish and throwing up, and she portrays grief quite movingly, it's just that it seems with every episode she's given less and less to…

I'm fully aware of that, I've lived in DC and NoVA and vacationed on the DE and Maryland shores for 20 years. You are right, it is its own entity, in the same way that Texas is really neither southern nor western, it is Texan. I just thought that like a lot of people you might have thought that the Mason-Dixon line…

SPOILER ALERT BUT THIS IS FROM SEASON 2:

I've always thought that everyone, EVERYONE, should have to work a retail/service job for a year. The kind of crap you experienced with Bike Babe would disappear. Or at least that's my theory.

Your coworker might not be too far off. I've owned dogs for the past 20 years and in the last six months THREE people have asked to photograph the dog I have now. This has never happened to me before. All three times they wanted the photo to show breeders/shelter workers. I told them his breed but that was not good…

I too dislike Cora the most, always have (and I've seen every episode at least twice.) I have a theory that it's thinly veiled anti-Americanism on snobby Julian Fellowes's part to have written such a shallow, boring charatcer. Because I am such a DA obsessive I came across this thing on YouTube where they asked cast…

I'm guessing that since CO is so eco-friendly people are endlessly tweeting about vinegar as a cleaning agent. You really can clean almost anything with vinegar, no chemicals, it's cheap, etc. You can also mix it with baking soda and unclog pipes. I do this and aside from smelling like I live in a Greek salad my…

Kitchenette is one of my favorite features across the entire kinjaverse so I hope you don't think I'm being antagonistic but: you do realize that the Mason Dixon line is the line that separates PA from MD, so Maryland is south of the Mason Dixon line?

Devil in the White City is excellent, as is anything by Erik Larson. Read Thunderstruck and In the Garden of Beasts too when you get the chance.

Read Liz Moore's Heft.

"a bunch of rich, super judgmental, old-ass white virgins"

Your black lab and my black lab have been sharing tips online.

God is in the details.

The next time someone asks me what I do for a living I'm going to claim to be Barbra Streisand's harpist. (I have no doubt your yoga friend actually did this, I just get sick of "what do you do for a living?" being an opening conversation gambit.)

Of course we can get groceries delivered, and Americans have been doing it for decades. If you watch old American TV shows or movies sometimes you'll see the wife or a servant calling in an order to the local grocer and the cheerful delivery boy will show up on his bike, sort of like what happens on Downton Abbey.…

I'm buried deep in the grays/greys but I'll share a little restaurant tip:

"I would comment with something snarky here, but honestly, I'm thunderstruck by the fact that it's even possible to get groceries delivered in the UK."