Radiolab is a shell of its former self. Miller and Nasser (who took over for Abumrad and Krulwich) sound like a couple of stoners whose real interest is talking over each other about how clever they are. Old episodes are gold, sure, but it has been hot garbage for about a year and half.

An intern ordered two pizzas with pepperoni and “ ‘shrooms” for a lunch meeting. Except the store heard him say pepperoni and shrimp. It was not a good meeting. Or pizza.

My then-girlfriend and her family were coming to my parents’ house for (capital-T capital-D) Thanksgiving Dinner to meet my extended family. A big event. I was in charge of the turkey and the gravy. All looked very well until I tasted the gravy.

And if you, like the ladies who sat next to me this weekend, bring an entire meal (with appetizers) from PF Changs to eat during the movie? And have to get up to wash your hands twice? And leave your smelly trash? Die in a fire.

A step easier: If you run a bamboo skewer or chopstick down the middle, you can spiral cut around it but never through.

Curious: Why do you soak the bread? I am thinking that either (i) you leave it dry, making it into crumbs, to soak up the tomato, or (ii) leave it out because you are not really using it as a thickener, especially with the straining/food milling. Toast the crusts for crouton, sure, but water-soaked white bread? I’m…

Smithereens: Especially For You

I don’t know how Miranda is not the state hero of Devil Wears Prada. Andy’s friends are the very worst, happy to harp on her trying to work until her job gives them pretty things they can’t afford. Her stoner boyfriend is measuring out his life in ounces of Jarlsberg. And then Miranda, who is supposed to be the…

So preoccupied with could, not considering should.

Anxious to see that rectangular 8x8 pan.

How does a square 8x8 pan make twelve brownies? Nine? Sure. Sixteen? Absolutely. Twenty-Five? Little small but okay. But Twelve? What kind of mathematical cutting monster are you?

So in passing, I read the title as “How to Buy and Take a Cake to Work.” Which would have been a different article. And now I want cake.

“The charges are civil, not criminal, so nobody is facing prison time.”