Have you ever seen “Julia Sans Julie”? Someone edited out all the Amy Adams stuff and gave us what we really wanted:

You know what I’m seeing more and more of is Irish cheeses. Every year seems to bring more. I’m in New York and there are far more Irish people and people of Irish descent than there are Brits, but still. For now they’re both part of the EU so you would think common export rules would apply.

Having owned a cheese shop, do you have any idea why Double Gloucester is so hard to come by in the US? In England it’s as ubiquitous as Kraft singles and costs about the same. The last time I found some domestically it was $23.99/lb. Is it not pasteurized, maybe?

You could do what I do and give yourself The Kitchen Challenge. That is, you rummage through the fridge and the freezer and assemble something from what you find.

I cannot, for the life of me, make a decent pizza. Could you do a recipe that explores this? I’ve tried everything, making my own dough/buying frozen pizza dough; making my own sauce/buying “pizza sauce” & etc. I think it’s partly because I can get the Viking up to about 550 degrees but that’s not enough.

I should add, this is one of the most shocking scenes I ever saw on “Mad Men,” a series that was full of them.

I thought the Golden Rule of reading most Yelp reviews is to ignore the 1 stars “I’d give you zero stars if I could!!!” and the 5 stars “The best experience I’ve had in months!!!” The one stars come from Yelpers who didn’t get something for free; the 5 stars come from someone with a fiduciary interest in the…

Chicago’s getting off cheap. New York is going to spend $5.5 billion over five years to install elevators in 70 stations ($78 million each on average.)

The Third Reich preferred piano wire, apparently it’s more painful, but produces the same results.

This is late and very “who cares?” of me but have you ever made your own tofu?

It’s the improper use of the emphatic. You used asterisks, which is common online, but in a lot of signage people use double quotes. You probably see it all the time. “World’s Best Coffee!” “We Deliver” “Vegan Options Available”

Years ago I used to get accosted by Lyndon LaRouche supporters periodically in the Columbus Circle subway station. It was very random and not tied to any election that I can remember. The conversation would go:

I will have to make Peach Mint Crumb Cake. At this point I think I can guess how to do it.

I’ve never had a bad meal in SF. The last time we were there, maybe two years ago, I said, “We can just stop anywhere. It’s going to be great.” And it was. And it wasn’t particularly expensive, at least the places we stumbled onto. I don’t know how they do it, unless the businesses own their buildings and the…

Susan Collins will find all of this deeply troubling, have grave concerns, and then do nothing. You also have Independent Angus King. I wonder what he feels about all of this.

I have people over a lot and about three years ago I made dinner for a group that included people who would eat seafood but were otherwise vegetarian. I served:

When I was in high school I once ordered a McD chocolate shake but couldn’t finish it all. Waste not, want not, I drove it back to my parents’ house and put it in the freezer to have later. About three hours later I took it out and...it didn’t smell bad or anything, but it had reverted to its artificial chemical form.…

I am in the editorial world and at a party someone once asked me, astonished, “You can make a living just by knowing how to write in English?” “You’d be surprised how many people can’t. If I led you over to the bar how would you spell ‘led’?” “L-e-a-d.”

Britain used to have something called the Lords of Appeal in Ordinary, or the Law Lords. They were members of the House of Lords who heard final appeals. As of 2009 this august group is now known by the much more pedestrian name “The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom.”

I had a friend who left New York because he had come to hate the place. A couple of years later he reluctantly came back for a visit and we went out for a drinking session. We eventually left the bar. It was a very warm night and after a while, as he was griping about his New York experience, he said to me, rather…