The Jungle Bird has been having a renaissance in my house of late. I generally am not a tiki fan, but the Campari adds just enough edge to balance it out. Almost toooooo drinkable.

The better half and I (have not decided a good name; suggestions welcome - Herkheadface? Dunno) made a fuckload of dumplings to freeze on Saturday, like about 200 or so, utilizing the new grinder attachment she got me for xmas. We can grind our own meats now! My dumpling skin rolling needs practice, as does my…

I'm sorry, but this article is full of bad facts and bad opinions.

It would be forgivable if it were at all funny.

Seconded. Destroys almost every other chicken I've ever eaten and is probably the simplest to make. You can make a nice pan sauce to go with if you want to fancy it up a little bit.

I don't really have a horse in this race, but I am getting kind of sick of every article/review/reference/what-have-you of any eastern animated media being heavily peppered with talk about how much anime tropes suck and how it's all bullshit and you just have to stomach it…it's bordering on quite offensive, and I…

Your note on the AA connection is well-made. There were also many black artists and musicians that played clubs in France (who were more supportive of the musical movement) during the interwar years, further cementing the connection.

It even says in the linked article that it is a "brandy-based variation" of the Sazerac. Jeez.

Brandy de Jerez, yes! If you ever see a bottle of the Navazos-Palazzi collaborations and don't mind splashing out, they are mind-bending.

Thank you for this bit of sense.

no

Comparing Armagnac to Cognac is like comparing apples to…slightly different apples (as so-and-so mentioned below), the distillation method is different, the allowable varieties are different (and if you want to argue that varietal composition doesn't matter vis-à-vis distillation, we can point to any number of…

Yes, some misleading knowledge.

Seconded on the Calvados, although I would try to find a Calvados Pays d'Auge; it's the only region where double distillation is required.

Yeah, hire me! (you are incorrect, though)

Yes, it is excellent. What's up with people needing to know the plot of stuff?

I'll just play Canabalt instead.

When spider's on a bagel, you can eat spider anytime!

No insect…no insect…you're the insect!

yes