Same.

*except when you have to actually store this beautiful torpedo ...

Since I wrote this, mask mandates have started going up in various counties throughout Florida. 

Here’s an option: Don’t. Just don’t.

As a Floridian who loves Florida and will defend Florida until it runs out of Florida, I was going to attack that photo illustration by asking how old it was.

It’s not the cake, it’s the thought that counts.

Yup. None of our restaurants offer delivery yet all have been included by third-party services without our consent and without notification. They scraped old menus from the websites, including items we no longer serve (which, of course, causes the upset patron to call and yell at US), and then had the audacity to…

I actually exclaimed, “Oh!” when I realized it was a slideshow.

This year, I noticed a bit of sodium revisionism when it came to Thanksgiving turkey brining.

The best part, it cooks pretty evenly. And the legs and thighs almost melt off, making it even easier to section.

It worked so well when I tried it with chicken about 10 years ago that I did the same with my Thanksgiving turkey on the grill.

My mom used to work at Costco handing out free samples of a health item. She was employed not by Costco but by a third-party contractor who manages all samples operations.

You know, there’s never been a time where there were more ways to make restaurant-level food at home with more ease.

I knew I liked you.

Update:

Packaged “muesli” is a loose mixture of mainly rolled oats or cornflakes together with various dried fruit pieces, nuts, and seeds – the main ingredients of any muesli. It commonly contains other rolled cereal grains such as wheat or rye flakes. “Mueslix” is a Kellogg’s brand name.

This is some serious White People Food. Right up there with Muslix, hard cider, sea salt, pumpkin spice moonshine, granola bars, biodiverse organic wine and chia-kiwi-kale-latte-frappuccino smoothies.

How apropos:

In his fascinating book “Ten Restaurants That Changed America,” author Paul Freedman briefly discusses the Automat. (Not one of the 10, but a significant one nonetheless). In addition to changes in American appetites and the onset of fast food restaurants, he also says that Automats in New York City became known as…

The countertop clock radio. The enamel sink and counter. I grew up in a kitchen and never left.