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I'm a thick crust lover married to a thin crust lover -- when we order for delivery we get two smallest-sized so we can each have the crust of our dreams (and servings to freeze). When I make pizza at home I also make two different crust levels on small pans and cook mine at the lowest level of the oven, his at a level above. Naturally, we don't get perfect crust that way, but you do what you have to do...
Oh, and we're also at two different sauce levels -- dear husband wants extra sauce, I don't.

The food plate is not ethnically sensitive at all. How many US citizens still eat in this fashion of different foods in different quarters of the plate? If I make spaghetti and meatballs for dinner, it's not going to be served with the grain in one place and the tomatoes somewhere else and the meatballs off to another quadrant. And I'd say that was true of every other food I make for dinner: curried eggplant, stir-fried tofu and broccoli, fish tacos, and on and on. The number of nights we have steak, two veg, and a baked potato = 0. So I think that using this with children could make them ashamed not to be "real Americans."

Hodgson Mill has a whole wheat gingerbread mix which is at least worth testing. I used it to make cupcakes/muffins and did add some spices and bits of candied ginger, which can improve any ginger bread mix.
HM seems to be pretty well-distributed brand, and I do think it would be a good idea to include wholegrain brands in these taste tests (Bob's Red Mill is also easily available, at least around here, though I don't remember if they makes a gingerbread mix...)

I was really surprised that Cape Cod did not get rated! We love these chips so much that in December we included them as the central part of our "Potato" themed holiday packages (the company has a nice website with pre-selected gift options), which also included a history of the Potato published by Yale University Press, packaged gnocchi, framed potato postcards, potato themed kitchen items, and CDs with Potato titled songs (yes, those too exist!)

the first few episodes are always difficult, at least for me, since I'm still trying to recognize contestants.
That being said two things: 1) my husband and I thought Padma seems terminally bored. It's not like she's an actual actress (despite some awful work on Brit TV!) but she's not even phoning it in on this show. 2) ever since I deciphered that tiny print that says the producers are able to weigh in on the judgements I've suspected that how the food tastes/looks is not as important as how the show runners have decided they want the narrative to run. And in this case, looked since the first episode that they want to set up a final showdown between Kenny and Angelo with maybe one of the girls...

Not a show I watch, so I have to wonder if any of these are in the mode of "indigenous people pull anthropologist's leg," that is, no one eats this stuff until some white guy with a bunch of cameramen show up and then people see how far they can go and what he'll believe... are there lots of shots of everybody else eating this stuff with great delight?

funny to read this this morning, since I'd just decided to use many of the same ingredients to make a soup for dinner -- not milk, but veg broth, and I'll add some celery and a finely chopped leaf of dark green kale for some sparks of color...

why do I find Michael Pollan so annoying??? I've been eating a "plant-based" diet for more than a decade, and yet every time I see him interviewed, or read one of his self-satisfied articles in the Times, and see him praised everywhere, all I can think of is "quick, pass the cheeze-whiz and saltines to me."

I grew up on white grapefruit, which are really hard to find now. We like them because they aren't as sweet as the red versions, and we are cutting back on sugar. So, this year we ordered some from florida and are rationing them out.

confession time: last year my sister-in-law included in our holiday gift a jar of bread and butter pickles that she canned herself. they looked great, but we never opened it, and just recently disposal-ed the pickles and recycled the jar.
I'm OK with a lot of homemade gifts, but somehow, home made food -- which I'd happily eat in your home! -- no.

There is a condition that scientists have studied which makes it difficult for some people to identify others' faces. I must have some of that, since most of the time I couldn't keep the right name attached to Bryan and Michael's faces.
And, I still don't get a) why Kevin made such bad choices for his final recipes [especially that dessert] and b) why he didn't win anyway.
BUT, I've always been annoyed by that disclaimer that runs (very quickly) at the end of each episode, that says more or less that the producers can make suggestions to the judges about who wins.

here's another vote for going back if the service was bad, but not giving another chance to a bad meal. "Front of the house" is really hard work, and anyone can have a bad day. But if a whole meal was bad, not one dish that worked (and if that's true across the table, not just my own choices) then I figure there's something really wrong in the kitchen, and won't go back unless everyone I talk to says "but it was great when I was there..." or as is more likely, the management changes.

years ago, after a few hours of driving by an enormous feedlot in nebraska, my husband stopped eating commercial beef. Shortly thereafter, having read a New Yorker piece on mad cow disease, I stopped too. Since then, we'ver rarely had any beef -- and only if we are assured by the local natural foods store that it comes from a no antibiotics, grass fed, local butchering etc. situation.
As long as most americans are happy to go to mcdonalds and the like and to eat hamburgers over and over again, there won't be any changes, even though there are probably lots of people who are injured.
I know that ecoli has also been found in organic grown spinach (which I'm still buying), and to a certain extent there will always be some danger in the food supply, it probably can't be completely eliminated. But ground beef has been such a frequent problem that I am surprised that people can't seem to break the habit.