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A government grant, sure, or perhaps a dissertation. She could supplement her M.D. with a research Ph.D.

Yep. In all my time living in Japan, and eating ramen in the States, I've never been served ramen with curly noodles. Maybe the YouTubers are trying to reproduce packaged instant ramen.

Voluntary recall of Trader Joe's Spiralized Butternut Squash and Zucchini

This is great! Wonderful pictures, and I laughed out loud (which I seldom do when I'm by myself) at that third Guinness photo. I'm curious, too, about your exploring your childhood after having been away for so long. I did the same with my neighborhood in NYC, and my immediate reaction was, "Everything looks so much smaller now."

How rude! (The guests, not the reviewer.) Let's hope he had enough "restaurant sense" to have noticed why things were chaotic.

Thanks! And yes, it's out of stock online, but some stores, including the one near us, still have it.

Cadence, in South Kensington, has received several honors, including being named one of Bon Appétit's top 50 new restaurants for 2018 and Food & Wine's #1 new restaurant for 2019. Its menu looks interesting enough, even if I didn't feel much of a "Wow," but does the place truly deserve its honors? And given that it specializes in live-fire cooking, how much of that aroma wafts into the dining area?

Because the spaghetti can feel it. In fact, if you listen very, very closely, you can hear the spaghetti scream. Linguine, too.

Today would have been Orwell's 116th birthday. While doing a bit of research about him, I fell down a rabbit hole and learned that a essay commissioned by the British Council in 1946 about British food, was then deep-sixed by the Council. The essay also included a recipe for marmalade that used a rather alarming amount of sugar. Here's a BBC article about all that. And here's an article from the Council itself. And here's Orwell's essay.

I bought their chef's knife when they were still a Kickstarter project. It's a decent, sharp knife. Nothing where I'd go "Wow," but for $52 on sale, definitely.

I'd think Darienne and dull knives seldom keep company.

A fun graphic article in the New York Times

Excellent article in this past Monday's Washington Post

Also Vedge.

My favorite dressing: Hellman's mayo, good sour cream, Maille Dijon mustard, apple cider vinegar, fresh lemon juice, a bit of sugar, a bit less of salt, and -- here's my novel contribution -- some jarred white horseradish.

A remarkable article in the Guardian by Wendy Mitchell, author of Somebody I Used to Know, her memoir about living with early-onset Alzheimer's.

In his famous speech in Berlin in June, 1963, President Kennedy made clear his support for West Berlin by saying "Ich bin ein Berliner." To this day, it's a zombie myth that by including "ein," he mistakenly called himself a pastry. Here's the comprehensive Snopes report about this.

Announced today -- a recall of King Arthur Unbleached All-Purpose Flour in five-pound bags, due to potential E. coli contamination.

Very clever. Twenty-two replies so far. Priceline occasionally does the same thing with an email subject line ("Don't open this!")

Me, too.

Yay! I loved her first two blogs.

And here's an article from today's Guardian.

Does this journal article help? Here's the lede:

Could you provide some links about those uses? Thanks.

The naming of drinks is a difficult matter, It isn't just one of your barhopping games; You may think at first I'm as mad as a hatter When I tell you a drink must have TWO DIFFERENT NAMES. First of all, there's the name that the drinkers use daily, Such as Julep, Manhattan, or Punch or Great Dane, Such as Vesper, Old Fashioned, or Coffee with Bailey's — Each one a sensible everyday name. To be continued, maybe...