Mac & Cheese That’s Only Comparatively Time Consuming to Make
Thomas Jefferson had a pasta machine sent from Naples to Monticello for mac & cheese. Now buy a blue box, boil some water, and stir. It’s easy
Category: Food
Spicy Pineapple Collard Greens and The Great Vowel Shift
My home version of a tonier restaurant’s Spicy Pineapple Collard Greens. It seems off the wall, and it is, but I think you’ll love it.
We call it Awesome Sauce: Birmingham Style Hot Dog Sauce
Hot dog sauce is a favorite condiment of mine so I figured I’d give it a go. It was disappointingly easy to make with only a modicum of mess
Recipe: Inauthentic Steak Tacos
I hope you enjoy the inauthentic authentic looking steak tacos as much as we did
The Best To You Each Morning: The Cereal In America Story
The inclusion of a bowl of cereal doused with milk in the breakfast ritual as practiced in the West is of relatively recent vintage.
Boxing Day Recipe: Lamb Stuffed Cabbage Rolls In Tomato Sauce
The following recipe for lamb stuffed cabbage rolls in tomato sauce is one of those. Takes 30 minutes out of your non-pressed Boxing Day
Holidays and Cooking
Holidays and Cooking: Here are a few gems that may set you apart from others in your social and familial spheres.
Glorious Violence: How to Prepare and Deconstruct 19th Century Poverty Food
Apocryphal stories of Maine prisoners and John Adams aside, the very real fact that lobster was, until relatively recently, a poverty food.
It’s Willamette, Dammit
I pronounced Willamette as “will-a-met” rather than as “will-ah-met”. She told me “Nope.” “It’s Willamette, Dammit.” Emphasizing the rhyme.
Midafternoon Nighthawks at the Waffle House
I just took my kids to a Waffle House for the first time and it was amazing. But the food was so secondary to the company.
Wine Tasting Through
I used to work as a sommelier, even though I still need autocorrect to spell the word properly. You know, wine tasting
Weekend Plans Post: Making a Frozen Pizza into Something Almost not Depressing
I don’t want to say that it wasn’t depressing at all… I mean, it’s a frozen pizza. But it was still pretty dang good.
Return to Normalcy?
Empathy is a binder. So is suffering. We’ve been told over two years that “We’re all in this together,” as we are told to stay apart.
American Sandwich Project: Love, Porktually, Part 1
How on earth pork can be romantic. Let’s start off by visiting the City of Brotherly Love, Philadelphia, to find out more.
Confessions of a Chicken Sandwich Hipster
The world of chicken sandwiches was as varied and exciting as the market for any other fast food item…And then The Sandwich hit
American Sandwich Project: The Progressive Triumph of the Latke
Originally latkes were not American, but that’s the thing…send us your downtrodden and in exchange we’ll help ourselves to their recipes.
Weekend Plans Post: The Most Important Video You Will See This Year
Well, seeing this video, I now realize that, perhaps, I have been eating my wings incorrectly for my entire life
Booper McCarthy and the Great Chicken Truck Rescue
“That is all well and good,” I said. “But how can one discern the wings of a right-wing dominant chicken from a left-wing dominant chicken?”
Mayo Is Evil: A Brief History
I hate mayonnaise. I hate it desperately. I think mayo is vile. My wife thinks it’s evil. Distinction without a difference.
Always Prepared
One would hope we learned that “just in time deliveries” are really misnamed and should be called “almost late.” So prepare.
