The cast iron crepe pan that really only ever gets used for bbq hash and fried eggs. A ceramic tagine or dutch oven if it’s winter and where I’m going is wood-heated. The don’t-actually-burn-your-hand bbq tongs. A rice cooker, if there’s electricity. The little knife that spends 50 weeks a year opening boxes or…

The odds are tiny but just in case: my kitchen window in Jinlin Tiandi looked directly into one of the lower floors of sounds-like-McFlimsy’s. I used to go into the kitchen in my pyjamas every night and raise a cup of tea to toast the poor minions who were still working at 23:00. If I ever infuriated you in the early…

You picked a good couple of years to be there. For me that period is just a happy blur of between the end of the trust crisis and the start of the funds industry. If you were working in financial services or playing golf at Thomson or Binhai, we probably have some people in common.

Tonkatsu on a hot dog sounds very good. Is this with the same 50/50 mayo mix as described in the article? If so, would you need to put some Worcestershire sauce back in to keep it sharp? If so, does that count as an ourobouros of global condiments?

I have been freed, thank you. It’s a user name that would make a certain amount of sense to the Shanghai expat community, which I was part of when I signed up here.

You call that a confession? Here’s a confession: according to family lore, I was one slightly stuffy priest away from being baptised in Montreal, in the Stanley Cup. Yeah - even my mother, who has basically hated hockey since childhood, can describe Tretiak’s influence on minor-hockey goalie coaching in rural Quebec.…

How rude of me! Get on a plane, train or whatever to Montreal and I’ll feed you. 

Frighteningly or conveniently?

Don’t me unintentionally mislead you: supermarket canola oil in the UK tastes (I think) about as bland to me as its equivalent here. The farmer’s market single crop/single planting stuff was the one that had the prominent flavours. I would suspect that your UK collaborators are also aiming for neutral when creating…

I’m not opposed to space holidays but I’m def not going up until there’s some Billecart-Salmon in girly pink to drink while weightless. This boy’s got standards.

See, now I’m picturing you cackling on top of a garbage bin.

I accept that we see the same woman in the pics and videos but I’d like a little more proof that the trash-eating posts aren’t composed by a raccoon. I’m still going to take the raccoon’s advice, I’d just like more certainty about which species’ instructions I’m following.

The edit I put in isn’t showing yet because kinja? I hit publish before thinking, then went back and changed the text to show the B-17 link between the two crops. However, it’s not showing yet for some reason.

This nonsense is so old that there were a series of Doonesbury strips about Duke buying an apricot farm in the mid-70s. Back then, the scam was a vile fraud touting apricot pits as a cure for stage 4 cancer. Now, with avocado (whose pits also contain laetrile, aka B-17) consumption about a million % higher than in the…

I have been in love with mine since the first time I used it. Can’t wait for the new one to arrive. It’s one of the few expensive things I’ve bought that I’ve never once regretted owning.

Hey! Threadjacking to tell you - because you’ll get why I’m too happy to sit still: I just bought the pressure-cooking Zojirushi! Gets delivered Friday. My 10-year-old one, which I love the way others love their spouses, only works with UK/Chinese voltages. The (extremely lovely) people at Zojirushi customer service sa…

That is interesting. I moved to Canada a couple of months ago and find the canola oil here really bland in comparison to what I could buy in the UK. I’m surprised, given the volume of sales I saw in the UK and Europe, that someone here isn’t marketing non-compliant, “single terroir” or equivalent, “artisanal” canola…

Um, Ug make fire? I’m from Artsville, although I’ve been very happily married to Science (Computational Cosmology division) for a long time. Should I interpret the above to mean that a higher acid allowance may or may not be related to the stronger flavours I sampled?

Show me some evidence that WC yellow cards aren’t negatively correlated with GDP/GDP per person and I’ll find this article more persuasive. Until then, the eye test suggests to me that the Fair Play system reduces the chances of African and East Asian teams progressing.

I’m not sure if this is correct - I was told this by someone with a direct economic interest in a higher-acid rapeseed oil production facility - but I’ve heard it alleged that the EU’s higher allowable acid percentage is the result of lobbying from French and English farmers, who began test-marketing single-farm or…