In addition to toasting nuts, it also works the same for toasting dried peppers. I hit them for 15-30 seconds at a time. It’s much easier than doing it in a pan.

There’s a liqueur called Sorel that seems to be this, but as an alcohol. I have an untouched bottle in the basement that you reminded me about, so thank you.

I don’t want no shrubs.

as a slushy, I do. I’ve had them like this and they’re delicious.

This reads not just like the most cliched list; it reads like a stereotype of food when naming a state. It’s borderline offensive.

Montenegro is my favorite. There was one I found in Germany called Mondino which is just as good. I’ve only seen it there, so I pick up a bottle every year when I go for work.

“Whoops. The darn thing wasn’t plugged in.”

Why a salt cellar? Why not a Himalayan salt lamp?

What’s the deal with precinct? What about a postcinct? Can this area just be cinct?

RIP to the guy who couldn’t even sing the National Anthem correctly.

The screenshot of them back to back needs to be made into a Rom-Com movie poster, for a movie called Live, Laugh, Liberate

As a result of the findings, Whole Foods will be raising the price of its bottles water. Arsenic is a premium, and they’ve just been giving it away.

I remember being like 9 or 10 when the Spaghetti Factory opened up in Providence, RI. We went on the opening weekend (I recall because everyone that went that weekend got a free loaf of sourdough (which I hated at the time, as a kid)). I recall it mostly because that was the first time I saw Street Fighter II, which…

Three that come to mind, all travel stories:

But I think Carmen Maria Machado said it best out of anybody: “In this pandemic era, I cannot help but think: What a miracle! To choose a restaurant and get there on your own steam and order a meal and pay for it with your money and then to eat every single bite.”

The stern grandmother who would hit you at the drop of a hat... yep. 

The one thing they have in common is they all make me hold back tears in front of my family. 

My wife, daughter, and I love this movie and watch it roughly 4 times a week (daughter is a year and a half).

What don’t you like, taste or texture? DO you like sweet things for breakfast? Savory? How do you feel about polenta/grits?