Meh, I’m not a big fan of their food so this really won’t change my behavior either way. That said, hey, they’re doing something. We don’t have to all agree on behavior. There are plenty of people who go to Roman Polanski films, who somehow think Steven Tyler is a an okay guy, etc. CFA is trying. And it should be said…

It should matter, you know? whether suicide or murder or payoff. Because they had the responsibility to keep that horrible man alive so he could give evidence regarding his buddies, etc., and also to at the very least make financial good to those girls, and maybe offer them a touch of closure. The fact that the NY…

Find or make a coffee that just wouldn’t work with sweetener. I brew coffee with crushed red pepper and cinnamon. It’s spicy, it’s delicious, and sweetener just doesn’t work with it. Actually, neither does cream. It’s a great morning / afternoon brew.

I am a deep lover of the small spoon shaped whisk and use it for lots of stuff. No, I wouldn’t make whipped cream with it, but it’s perfect for eggs, or salad dressing, etc. Got mine over 30 years ago at William-Sonoma for cheap and it’s been one of my best and most useable kitchen gadgets ever.

Oh!  I may try that.  Thank you!

I am an umeboshi junkie and when I’m not Keto-ing, umeboshi onigiri is my go-to breakfast, so I’m all in with the idea of adding it to stuff I never thought of.

West Virginia. In a house that didn’t even have indoor plumbing until I was 12.

I wish you luck. Sometimes it can be something that simple. There are plenty of things I make that need very specific ingredients or it’s just not as good. Get the ham. You have nothing to lose.

Biscuits.  I mean, mine are fine, I guess, but they don’t touch my grandmother’s, who had 14 children, grew up on a farm, married at 14 and was in charge of all the food for the husband/kids/workers.  The woman made biscuits every single morning of her life when she wasn’t giving childbirth.  I asked for lessons. …

I am so with you.  There is not a crust I will ever make on my own that will be halfway as passable as store bought.  I accept I am awful at this and it has greatly improved my joy in making pie.

I’ve never once believed that Epstein killed himself. It’s too pat,too easy. He’s a man who always believed he could do whatever the fuck he wanted and in fact, he could do whatever the fuck he wanted. And it’s not like I think his death is any great loss to us all as a person, but it totally destroys all the…

Yes I did.  Ohhhh, so sweet.  Until the book came out, HTG, I just thought it was Lovett crushing on Farrow.  No clue they were actually partners.

When Pod Save America and Lovett or Leave It came out, I did not bother listening, because, honestly, WTF do I care what an SNL guy and Jon Favreau think about anything political.  Then I listened and they didn’t sound quite right.  It took a full episode for me to realize they were totally different people.  I am…

Kerrygold is the only butter I use. It is perfect on everything. It actually tastes like butter. I live in the land of massive food snobbery, so Kerrygold is kind of looked at like Hotel Bar (apparently, cultured butter is all the rage). But they are wrong. It is delicious. A thick slice of really nice toasted bread,…

He operated on my boss. A quintuple bypass.  This was well before his medical ho fame. He used to be such a great doctor. I can’t believe where/how he ended up.

Just the teeniest bit on heavily buttered corn on the cob is an almost revelatory moment. Marmite is the just the biggest umami bomb ever made.

I’ve known a lot of recovering people over my life and honestly, the least likely to slip are bartenders. I have no idea why this is. It seems so counter intuitive, but there you go. This is based purely on my particular friends.  

At my company, unless your interview is absolutely spectacular, you will not be contacted for a second interview or hired without said note. Email or paper is fine. The basic premise being that if you can’t be bothered to spend 5 minutes on a thank you note for a job you really want, then the company doesn’t want you. …

My doctor is delighted.  I smoked for over 40 years.  I could barely climb a set of stairs.  I feel a million times better.  My yearly checkups always go well.  I get chest xrays as part of it, and ekg’s.  My point isn’t that vaping is great, it’s that it’s better than smoking, and instead of getting rid of something…

And they should be made to stop, just like the tobacco industry was.