Since the 11 years I’ve moved out of Texas, and living in a tiny town of 2,000 in Montana, the best food I’ve ever had is a condiment. And a tinier town south of me in Absarokee makes the best jams and jellies I’ve ever tasted in my life. And people like these need to be heard a little more. Great article Kate! Read more

As someone who lived in a couple of towns of <8,000 for not quite a year each, my advice for any parachute journalist is to spend the first night posted up at a dive bar and just talk to people to learn about a city. They’ll tell you, if you’re not a dick about it. And try to appreciate it for what it is, not what it… Read more

Now as Kevin has pointed out more than once, the comments section has the unfair advantage of “choose your five favorite sandwiches”, unfettered by such considerations as draft strategy, and while sometimes that just flat doesn’t matter (I refer you to my comment in the fast-food item draft last week, which I would… Read more

This is just a lovely story. Thanks. Read more

I have several on a (private) YouTube music playlist. This first one has no video (just the album cover as a static image) but the song always makes me feel better, especially when you notice how the accompaniment increases in intensity with each verse.

The second I saw that headline, I just knew it had to be this video! Read more

Oh come the fuck on bud. Don’t knock the oldest way of cooking bacon just because you suck at it. Read more

As one who is on a no sugar/no grain diet for 30 days, I will say without a hint of embarrassment... Read more

Cabo Wabo Resposado is still my favourite tequila. Read more

I love it when people jump into threads here to declare that the definition everyone else is using for a culinary term is wrong and only their own idiosyncratic definition is actually correct.
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Mike Masse is incredible. This speaks to that as well as “Africa.”

Wow...thank you for this clip. You were right, the tenor voice is incredible...

I find it may get old, but it never stays old.

I am dying... I don’t know what it says about me though that it bothers me that the subtitles are wrong even when it makes it funnier. (Penguin is penge girl - aka a really hot girl). Read more

OK, I like these draft choices a lot and based upon them I figure last night’s burger meal could have made it to the playoffs with its roster.

Kevin had my vote in the bag through the first three rounds. I LOVE American cheese, grilled onions, and mushrooms on a burger. In fact, that’s usually how I make them at home (with a little mayo on a grilled potato roll). After that, the wheels came off. Special sauce? BUTTER? I haven’t seen a bad choice derail a… Read more

Of all the hot sauces out there, the most under-used (at least, given the idiots who do these fucking stupid hot sauce challenges) is Thai sweet chilli sauce. Most commercial sweet chilli sauce is relatively mild, but I learned, years and years ago, that you can make it as hot or as mild as you want and you can change…