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I like listening to podcasts. Recent favorite is Marc Maron's WTF Podcast--smart interviews with comedians.

Of course...can never go wrong with this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

I haven't tried wild rice, but expect it would be fine.

I second DCarl1's recommendation. I have the same one and love it. Plus, it plays a song when it's done.

"the jewelry designer German lady who stayed at our hotel"--holy crud this article is riddled with awkward phrasing...

I'm loving the idea of lime juice and raw onion on top. In Guyana, we frequently eat our 'cook-up rice' (rice and black eyed peas) with lots of hot pepper and often a pickled onion. As the rice is frequently flavoured with fatty cuts of meat or pickled pigs tail or salted beef, the pickled onion cuts the flavour well. The lime juice and raw onion would, of course, serve the same purpose.

This is weird, but it never occurred to me that you could ask McDonald's to customize anything. I guess it's because I don't dislike any of their toppings--either that or the advertising from the competitors "your way" had convinced me it was impossible.

I would much prefer to do the cooking. I am a bit of a control freak, and even though I have acres of kitchen space, I would prefer if people stood outside of the work area and kept me company instead of helping.

I love to be cooked for as well, I don't even care if it's particularly good. It's a treat to be invited and to be social. But please don't have me there DURING the cooking process. I can't promise I won't be insufferable with 'suggestions'.

Mr.Monkey is a fine cook, but slow as hell and distracted. He's also not terribly keen in the specificities of managing heat on a stove. I cannot be in the same room as him when he's cooking. I have to leave or else it would be "I think you should turn that pot up/down". "If you slice these smaller they'd cook faster" BLah blah blah, until he's so frustrated he finally asks if I want to do it. That's a horrible feeling to provoke in someone...so I leave and gratefully eat the dinner when he's done.

The worst is when it's a product that is new to him to cook, but which I've cooked for us before. We're eating, for instance, a lot rice pasta at the moment, because I'm off wheat. It cooks up remarkably like regular pasta, but it's finicky, it goes from done to inedible mush in a rather short time. Offering him 'suggestions' when he's cooking something like that is most dangerous, because it appears that I'm telling him that I don't think he can cook something painfully simple, when in fact, it's a bit trickier than it seems.

LOL--that's sort of like saying "Texas....or Chicago".

You might also find out (once you figure out what city) if there are any gourmet shops in the area and try for a gift certificate there.

Honestly, as someone who is getting married, I would just prefer cash. It's not terribly romantic, but it's what's needed right now, especially if the bride is leaving a job etc to move to wherever it is they're going to be living.

I can't help you with that, but I would encourage you to try El Dorado Demerara Cream Liqueur instead if you can find it. It's Guyanese, and while I'm biased, it's also ranked consistently as one of the best in the world.

FWIW--I just removed and re-added Serious Eats as an exception to my Adblocker, and it seems to have worked. I can see my name again!

@Adam--I understand that, but I don't want to have to remember and then hunt down the last time I commented in a thread to find a link to my username. I click on the profile link at hte top of the page in order to see whether thread's I've posted in have been commented on since I've last posted...and yes, I know I could turn on email notifications...I have no desire for that.

I guess I wasn't clear. I can FIND my profile...but it's a huge pain in the butt. The point is that something that works for most browsers etc is broken for me, and apparently others..

Hallelujah, they're hiring writers again!