Fun Fact: Belize is one of the few countries without fast food businesses! Been twice; what a wonderful country.

Yes Johnny cakes are made from white wheat flour, imported and ground in Belize. This is mixed with coconut milk and either lard, shortening or coconut oil. Groundfoods has a synonym, bread kind, which is a term not heard too often these days. Bread kind is a Kriol term that refers to all starchy crops that can be a…

I really want to do the Marie Sharp’s tour but it hasn’t worked out timing wise during my two trips to Belize. When you schedule a factory tour they say that Marie herself, the actual lady who first founded the company, greets you at the bus stop. The grapefruit pulp habanero sauce is amazing and awfully hard to find…

After her posts went viral (let it go)

What’s the point of being wealthy if you can’t rub it in the poors’ faces?

Can’t you just be wealthy AND low-key?

They already have

My heart just breaks for her. It was exceptionally painful to be a rape survivor on the internet yesterday, without having your job reprimand you in such a public, unsupportive way. I just cannot imagine.

Yes! If someone is empathetic enough to understand that it would be hard for Vanessa Bryant or her kids to have Kobe’s rape trial rehashed right now ... surely they’re also empathetic enough to understand that it would be hard for any sexual assault victims (but especially Kobe’s!) to read these fawning posts that…

“His effect on every male and female sport was and can be felt.”

“Too soon” means “never”.

I saw the reaction to Sonmez’s tweet yesterday and was holding my breath for the WaPo’s reaction. Yup. They made the wrong call, just like I thought they would. You don’t punish a reporter for conveying accurate information. She didn’t tweet it directly to his family. She didn’t add commentary calling him anything…

Washington post fucked up and I hope they’re smart enough to drop the suspension fast.  I hope her fellow journalists rally around her. 

Thank you. For a reporter to be punished by a purported news organization for accurately pointing out that he was very credibly accused of rape, is fucking insane.

They still sell them. Rock hard frozen bananas, ready to enjoy in 3 to 5 hours.

Read the reviews before you come down here with your punditry about how reviews aren’t real reviews anymore, my dude. The reviewers are pretty clear that Dirt is a bad novel, in large part, because the stereotypes are so bad and so prevalent. You can’t excuse that kind of racism and view the writing apart from it when…

Read The Book of Unknown Americans instead. Incredible.

Anytime you have a fruit that’s too watery/runny you should try macerating it ahead of time to draw out the excess fluid. You can then use the excess sugar water for cocktails.

+1 for letting the sugared apples sit.

Flour is definitely the way to go (works for most cakes, too) but I would use butter, rather than oil, as the fat, since I find that oil beads up and doesn’t make as smooth a surface for the flour to stick to. Toss a handful of flour in the buttered pan, knock it around until everything’s covered, and toss what…