Serious Eats - seriouseats.com

My roommate in college couldn't even be bothered to put a dish in the sink. She just put the dirty dish and fork under the sofa cushion. After breaking a couple dishes when I sat down on the sofa, I would always check under the cushion before sitting down.

@lemons - My knife cracking coworker said everyone she knew in her town (in the former Soviet Union) did it that way.

If Giada's pronunciation is correct and she is truly speaking like "an educated Italian of the upper class in the middle of Italy" then why in her earlier episodes of Everyday Italian does she say spaghetti, Parmigiano-Reggiano, and pancetta in "the bastardized Italian we usually hear in the US"?

Yes, it does seem that processed has a perjorative meaning these days. When it means chemical and HFCS laden food stuffs, then it seems rightly so. But if we used the most literal definition, then herbs, honey, chopped, roasted, etc - basically everything - would be processed.

I'm pretty sure these women I speak of are not dissing pork for religious reasons. As far as I know, Christians are allowed to have pork. But even if it were for religious reasons or flavor aversions, I don't understand why it's an automatic reflex for these girls to announce that it's not pork. But, like some of you have mentioned, maybe it's just the girly girls that I know. Perhaps I need to find some more pork loving lady friends.