There's so much going on in Talk and in the comments week to week that we almost can't keep up. If you're in the same boat, here's a small selection of topics and responses that have piqued our interest this week.

Ideas To Dress Up Boring Pasta?

"Spaghetti straps and a tiara?" —CandiRisk

Sam Sifton Leaving 'New York Times' Restaurant Critic Position

"Hambone." [Ed. note: Clearly our vote!] —dbcurrie

"Lamont Cranston--the kitchen would never spot him." —Thomas_Traveler

Home Slice: Making Homemade Stuffed-Crust Pizza

"I'll tell you what... its gonna be years before they find more places to hide cheese on a pizza." —ESNY1077

Pizza Obsessives: Daniel Zemans, Slice Contributor

""I get the sense there are some people out there in Sliceland who have a mental checklist of what a pizza is supposed to be like and when they encounter a pizza, either in person or online, they go through their list and ding the pie each time it doesn't measure up."

My God, it's like the pizza equivalent of my last three boyfriends." —Bangie B

Boiled Vegetarian Husband Risotto

"I looked it up in a substitution guide, and two vegetarian wives can be substituted for one carnivorous husband without any loss of flavor or texture. If your husband is a vegetarian, you will have to add more mushrooms and salt for that umami boost. If your wife is a carnivore, husbands and wives are equally interchangeable---which I find quite reassuring." —Teachertalk

"If you are preparing hippy, though, you have to be careful to wash first. Also, hippies require some extra herbage to really work well in a dish, although good mushrooms can also work. Just make sure it is thoroughly baked." —scotchncoffee

This Week at Serious Eats World Headquarters

[keepin it real]

"I don't know if @CandiRisk is a genius, or if HypnoHam has been around for awhile and I missed it.

But it's like Hambone's a rapper and HypnoHam is one of the name's his crew gave him.

The dopest. The illest. HypnoHam. He's the realist." —JacobEstes