Two things I loved about this episode:

I bet you’ve probably attained greatness at cooking in your own way, and there’s no need to take a Paterno/Sandusky truther’s word that you haven’t.

So next episode Cheers, then Seinfeld, then Arrested Development, then Community? I’m looking forward to see Vision as Abed.

I read that more as a play on 1970s era gender roles and patriarchy. Women can't be doctors, but if they work hard enough they can be a nurse.

When I was in college, I was in a dorm suite with five other girls. They all decided, at the same time, to go on a low/no carb diet with a 1,200 calorie max per day.

I read a circle jerk of “health nuts” discussing how a water cleanse was really great. Which is just drinking water, no food, for a few (2+) days in row. And people cheering each other on with one person saying they only really go up to 5 days, but are gonna try for 7. JFC this is just an eating disorder, diets and…

In other news, Nestle has confirmed they have no plans to recall all other Hot Pockets, despite the fact that there is more nutritional value found in plastic and glass.

Instead of doing a worse version of other restaurants’ foods, why not bring more of their international foods over? I’ve wanted the fried paneer sandwich since I read about it here. It’s a giant slab of fried cheese! That’s like as American as it gets!

There was a Tex-Mex chain that opened a location by my office around 2012 that, on their menu, encouraged the prospective diner to “Think of a burrito as the Mexican version of a wrap.” 

I seem to remember that there was also a Big Mac wrap?!? Like it was literally just a burger chopped up to fit in the wrap, with special sauce and shredded lettuce? It feels too dumb to be real, but I swear I remember it.

See THAT sounds worthy of real mashed potatoes. If I’m making bog standard gravy (drippings from whatever critter has been roasted/baked, stock, milk, a glug of wine and seasonings - I really use too much wine in my cooking I think. The kid who bags groceries at our store is starting to look at me funny and I keep…

I also grew up in D.C. (in 84!) and squealed like a little girl at the Commander Salamander reference.

We were all in the same city.

I live in a large city, but our subway isn’t that deep underground. Even i was like, “Jesus, when do these escalators ever END?” when I visited DC.

Whatever method or style you go with, just be sure to make LOTS of them. Leftover mashed potatoes fried up in patties are fantastic (but not at all like a mashed potato latke, mentioned briefly in Aimee’s recent piece on latkes).

I had really good mashed potatoes in a restaurant once and asked the server how they made them so good.  He just said “a little bit of salt, a little bit of pepper, and a whole lot of butter.”

I love this article for ALL the reasons. I have a friend who was one of Dorie’s test bakers, and she would also agree that Dorie is an absolutely wonderful human being.

I have a different one of her recipe books, and...yes. Many pages in the book are stained and splattered, especially the one that holds my favorite:…

I do agree with this article. I realized the movie is flawed, although I’m still enjoying it tremendously.

Yeah the deepfake Luke was fine when his face didn’t need to move. The moment he started speaking it was VERY rough.

Nope, not at all!