It's time for the annual truth-telling session of Thanksgiving food: It is largely bad. 1) Turkey is an atrocity. I love how every November we see a zillion articles that read "If you do this one trick that takes 8 days, you will create an...
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Despite my strong opinions about condiments, I am not really a food fundamentalist, at least in terms of what is or is not appropriate about what belongs on a food,.
To quote June Carter, it's hotter than a pepper sprout out there, at least in much of the country. And yet, I still need to eat. Other than eating a.
I was already blaming ketchup for everything wrong with America, but now here's some evidence, as we have a Smithsonian piece on how ketchup is emblematic of the entire American industrial food system. Even if it doesn't see this as negative, maybe you should. In...
The Trump-Macron state dinner sounds awful; mostly because of Trump but Macron sucks too (boy, with more political parties this nation could have a choice like France--an awful neoliberal or.
The gelatin mold is a lost art, of sorts. The appeal of gelatin is largely unknown to me. Perhaps this is because of Jell-o and Lutheran hot dish potlucks (let.
Since I am evidently the LGM person designated to write strong opinions about food, I will link to this long defense of Tex-Mex cuisine. It's a good article as a whole with many solid points, but it doesn't actually amount to a great defense of...
As a casual student of American food faddism, something that is still more than alive and well today (Yes, it's an amazing coincidence that a sizable percentage of the educated.
As part of my goal to get 0 comments per post, on a day dominated by the defeat of Roy Moore, it's time for a post on the recent transitions.
This is the grave of Joan and Ray Kroc. Ray Kroc was born in 1902 to a Czech immigrant family near Chicago. He was just an average guy for the first few decades of his life. His father had briefly held a fortune in real...
I may have strong opinions about Thanksgiving and its food. So some may incorrectly disagree with me. But one Thanksgiving hot take we can all agree is atrocious comes from.
It's time for what is probably an annual post, which is asking you how you are going to make the terribleness of turkey edible for Thanksgiving. My own personal preference.