The problem is not that the food isn’t “authentic”. I thought Kate did a really good job explaining this situation in the article. Food was always in very short supply on the island itself after the Castro regime came in, and things had to adapt accordingly. Pretty much all the Cuban food you get in the States is from…

Great work. Cuban food is a delight. Been eating it as long as I can remember. A lot of the flavor profiles aren’t entirely different from the Colombian food my grandmother made when I was a kid. As with everything, though, things do vary from place to place. I still haven’t found a place that makes ropa vieja nearly…

Well, I can’t remember the last time I actually got a donut at Dunkin. I’m more of a coffee and breakfast sandwich guy from them (and I guess I’m a basic peasant human, but I love their coffee). Honestly, the donuts are never that fresh, as they are not baked in stores anymore, they come by truck and who knows how…

Unfortunately for all of us who know how perfect Idris Elba would have been for the role, it probably needed to happen in 2011 or so, after Skyfall wrapped so we could have gotten a 2-3 picture deal from him.

So I am the parent of a 3 year old, so I watch a looooooot of Mickey and the Roadster Racers, in which Donald is a very central character. The way they vocalize him in that show works well. It’s lower pitched, slowed own a bit, and better enunciated. It turns out a different voice actor voices Donald in that show. I…

Like most episodes of the show, it was uneven in a lot of places, but still made me laugh quite a bit. The quiet “I win” was a good payoff for the B-Story.

Honestly, I just roll with good old salted butter for everything (typically the Wegmans store brand because it’s the least expensive, but I will indulge in some KG from time to time just for funsies). Not a huge amount of difference in recipes, I find. I just made Alton Brown’s Blueberry Buckle tonight which calls for…

People are right, you do need specific equipment to make good rice. It’s just that you don’t need an expensive unitasker with a million bells and whistles. This is specialty equipment that’s less than $30 and can be used for all sorts of wonderful things:

Amen to all of this. Let’s face it. I don’t like super hoppy or sour beer. That’s just not my thing. My favorite beer is a Belgian strong that’s brewed with honey that is from a hole in the wall brewpub, drinks super easy, but kicks like a mule. And the last time I was at the Beer Hall with friends, my favorite thing…

This is great for me. Beats loading up the Firefox app on my phone and digging into the menus to find the “saved logins” feature to look up a password I’m not sure of (or isn’t set up on an app on my iPhone already).

Why is this whole article missing if I have uBlock Origin turned on? Chrome or Firefox. No es bueno.

Hot Grill is nothing short of amazing. I did not grow up eating Texas Weiners (I’m from the mythical land of Central Jersey and we were Galloping Hill Inn folk), but I started years back when my girlfriend started taking me there. And you’re right, it really is the mix of the fried dog, the sauce, and the toppings…

I’ll have to try that. I usually just sprinkle some kosher salt on my tomatoes and go on my way.

Well, on today’s 12:00 newscast on WABC (NYC’s ABC flagship), they mentioned specifically that this whole thing is just a promotional deal and the name will go back soon. Much like McDonalds in our modern times, breakfast will always be what keeps the lights on at IHOP.

It was a sad day when H&H closed up shop, for sure. Used to get bagels there, then head down the street to Zabars and get some lox and cream cheese to dress those bad boys up.

The obvious thing about those bacon and cheese fries comes from the picture you see on the press release you linked to. On there, the fries are lightly drizzled with cheese sauce. The ones served were obviously just ladled on indiscriminately. The ratios were all off. I bet with a light drizzle of cheese sauce, it…

I feel like I’m one of the few people who does not really feel like the Office is anything more than a cringeworthy, terrible show that wasn’t funny when it first aired, and has only gotten less funny as time goes by. It was a show that had some good quick moments, but little more. I know most people think I’m wrong…

Until stores can make the touchless payment systems more seamless, where tapping with my iPhone won’t cause my bank to think I’m being defrauded and lock my card out, then things will be better. The only places I’ve had relatively good luck using Apple Pay without issues are Walgreens and Jersey Mikes.

I know I’m in a very small minority when I say this, but I dislike The Office with a seething passion. It was cringeworthy as hell ten years ago when it first aired, and it is not aging gracefully at all. And yes, I get the point that it’s supposed to be cringeworthy, but, ugh. I don’t find it all that funny outside…

Dick Tracy isn’t a great movie, but it had some good ideas. I loved how they kept the color palette for the whole movie to the 8 primary colors used in the comic strips. The 30s settings and such were good as well. I think with a better writer and director, we could get an interesting reboot out of this, but sadly…