Better yet- melt some dark chocolate and drizzle, and then try a balsamic reduction. Balsamic gets very sweet as a reduction.

Write more articles that apply to me. And the majority of the work force, who work in retail and food service. I would, except I have authority problems, and keeping management off my tits is my major priority.

I suppose I'm just critical of the fact that Lifehacker constantly assumes that most of its readers work in offices, and actually has an ongoing rapport with their boss. I'm a cook, which means I'm generally supplying skills my manager does not have. I appreciate that having a good working relationship counts for…

My boss is a woman. Also, this is stupid and bourgeois. If I imitated my boss, I'd destroy my product. Not that I want to advance in that company- thank god today was my last shift.

her voice works for it, but I don't think that's the song I would've chosen to cover. I would've chosen Come As You Are, I think that would sound really interesting with female vocals.

"I should smile? You should choke. How about I smile while you choke. I would be genuinely happy for you if you choked."

his sign off handle gives you exactly all you will ever need to know about the way he thinks relationships are supposed to work.

I'm moving right now. This is the first one bedroom I've ever had, and I went from being a little fish in a little bowl to a bigger fish in a bigger bowl. Now I'm in the process of sorting and removing. And panicking quietly.

I had to recreate a scene from Requiem for a Dream in film school, and when you actually just look at the script, it's incredibly boring and not compelling. Ellen Burstyn did a good turn but that's only because she's a total badass.

Aranofsky is violently overrated.

in fact if they want to make it illegal to not have gloves when handling nuclear weapons grade peppers, that would be fine.

No, that is the main issue. That is the only issue. Double gloves.

Oh there's still plenty of falling through the cracks. This is a deli in a grocery store and for my part, I think it's actually the layout that is the most detrimental to sanitary practices. There is a lot of space but not a lot of counter space, and the chicken breader is right in the middle of everything when it…

because curing your intellectual laziness is not our problem.

At the deli:

If the Health Department really wanted to verify whether people are following health procedures or not, they should send in an undercover person, either as a technician or maintenance of some kind, and observe what goes on in the regular day to day. If that outfit is following the sanitation rules, they should be…

I have my own little pizza sub-department, but I work in a deli. They gave up on that battle a long time ago- we go through gloves like nobody's business. The words "don't use so many gloves" has never passed the lips of any of the management for as long as I've been there.

Unfortunately a lot of fast food restaurants don't mandate this. McDonalds is actually pretty good about it- you almost never see the cashier going back to work in the kitchen. But smaller operations often aren't as strict about it. Next time you go to a Quiznos or a Subway, or any other chain that's predicated on one…

ugh, no one who is cooking should be handling money or vice versa ever.

Completely. There are a few select tasks where I will wear gloves (I work the deli as well as cook, so I get the need) but the rate at which I go through them even when I'm not doing my job (making pizza, which is bullshit impossible with gloves) is astounding. At the end of business, I'd probably rather take a fine…