The former for mine. My parents are/were (my Mom died 9 years ago) legendary hosts. My wedding had open bar from the second the ceremony was over through the very bitter end of the evening. Multiple stations, too, so there wasn’t much waiting. (The only thing was that there were no shots - anything on the rocks was…

My husband is from Central NY, but we met and married in the DC area. The year before our wedding, one of his cousins that happened to also live in the DC area got married. It was a cramped affair in a dark room at a small, not-very-clean hotel...but because it was very near Dulles Airport, the room rates were still…

Oh you should.  Her honey bon bons are amazing.  She keeps her own bees on the many rooftops of the Twin Cities, so the honey is incredibly complex since the bees feed on all the mixed vegetation of an urban environment.

You order yourself a few of these to consume over the winter - they’re shelf stable for at least a year. You can drop them into any alternative milk - I prefer 12 oz to the recommended 8 oz - and you will have a KILLER cup of hot chocolate.

I gift these to my nephew who is lactose intolerant at Christmas, and he adores…

Bowen Yang continues to get good roles and pop in them, which is more than can be said for Chloe Fineman, who hasn’t had a chance to do many impressions this season, despite that being one of her main assets.

That is a Phillip Treacy hat from when the Trumps visited the UK this past summer. She wore that atrocity with a suit that had both a substantial peplum and a skirt with very large pleats. It was essentially her “Duchess of Cambridge Cosplay” and she really, really sucked at it.

I feel like Treacy passed off one of his…

I just had flashbacks of the fairly regular Baldwin McDonald’s pit-stop involved in a Twin Cities run.  Either just for bathroom breaks or to have a snack before I drove home.  I never went to the A&W though!

We’re in the Twin Cities now, but there are a few things I miss. The Blackened Tuna sandwich at Mogie’s is one. And while Noodle Wrap was my first favorite Vietnamese restaurant, it was supplanted by Egg Rolls Plus the first time I had their pho. Best damn pho in town, and it could compete with anything in Frogtown or…

Chippewa Valley represent! ;)

When we lived in Western Wisconsin, there was a place called Mike’s Smokehouse. As someone who grew up on vinegar-based southern pulled pork, I found their regular BBQ too aggressively smokey with a sauce that was too sweet. (Though the burnt ends basket was pretty good.) But two nights a week, they had a smoked prime…

See also this recipe for pureed gazpacho from Cook’s Illustrated. The bread and olive oil help make this surprisingly velvety.

Adam Driver has a compelling face, but I’m not sure it’s attractive. I lump Bandersnatch Cumberbund in that category, except I think he edges more towards “jolie laide” (a fancy French way of saying unconventionally beautiful/attractive).

This has summed up how I feel. Of course what the British Tabloids are doing to her is horrible, and of course part of it is pure racism.

I volunteered in the same vintage as you! Unfortunately, I didn’t get to wander as much as I would like. Because of the National Gem Collection, access to the Dept. of Mineral Sciences was actually secure. I wasn’t important enough to get an access card of my own, so I always had to be buzzed out. I tried to keep it…

Nope.  Different department.  I did, however, get to see the big rock saw they used to cut meteorites, and that was awesome.

Once upon a time, I was a volunteer intern under the now-curator for the Gems and Minerals. I never got to see the Hope out of the case, but I did get to see a lot of stuff the public hasn’t seen.

My late paternal grandmother’s lifestyle resume reads as follows:

We have one of those spaces here in the Twin Cities where several restaurants/vendors share space and all provide ingredients or specialty foods to each other. One of the restaurants involved is a seafood restaurant that I really want to love, but I can’t get past the fact that they charge anywhere from 25%  more than…

Grover was his partner in hauling trash - check out the nametag on his jacket!

I can assure you that for the Minneapolis decision, it was really about traffic backups. We have this Starbucks that’s near the line between the two Twin Cities that is a nightmare. This is close to an on-ramp for 94 - the major east-west interstate - so it really snarls up traffic in the most horrible way.  Throw in…