It’s the sort of excellence you’ve come to expect from me, and what I feel that you, my beautiful readers, deserve. Read more
You could build a custom setup where you have a phone, tablet, and laptop all open to The Takeout all the time so you can quickly zip between them depending on your immediate needs. Eventually we’ll get all this stuff on a chip and plant it into your skull, which will make it all much easier. Please be patient, though … Read more
I requested this be a slideshow for a sort of meta joke: listicles and slideshows are such a big thing in digital food media, and writers and readers love complaining about it. But if it’s an essential “evil,” why simply submit and whine? Why not take the form and turn it into something unexpected? What if we took… Read more
Say it in a Catalan accent! Read more
I believe that The Takeout comments community is powerful enough to be the change we wish to see in the world. If we work together, there’s nothing we can’t do. Read more
In seriousness, it’s pronounced “SOO day-LOO.” But in my standard state of non-seriousness, it works because you can make silly jokes about it (like you can with hours d’oeuvres and fajitas) which, aside from helping it catch on, is also a damn good time. And, once again, the word “cocktail” means “chicken ass.” Read more
Don’t tell me a night spent in front of the fireplace with some suc de lux and a bowl of Deez Nuts doesn’t sound like a good time. Read more
I don’t know him personally and doubt he will listen to me, but maybe once I build my sober army we can use our numbers to recruit him to the cause. Read more
See my comment above! Recess is my Friday night treat. Read more
It’s definitely not an everyday thing, but for a cocktail made with a three-year aged spirit, it’s reasonable. If I’m drinking something mindlessly, I drink seltzer. When I have a suc de luxe (it’s going to happen!), I want to savor it, and crazy enough, the price point makes me do that. Like, you don’t drink a $5 can… Read more
It’s a chicken butt! (no one listens to me on this point, either) Read more
YOU’RE WELCOME. Read more
IT’S CATCHING ON! Read more
Mmmmm... Polish sausage. Read more
No it wasn’t it was awesome. Read more
It will absolutely work with basic cheddar! I try to never use any ingredients that cannot be purchased at the average American supermarket, and if I do use a specialty ingredient, it will be easily available online.
The shells will most definitely be greasy as hell when they come out of the oven, because all the fat… Read more