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I love Aarti, and Indian food is delish, but doesn't it fit a rather narrow niche? On the other hand it'd be great to actually learn how to prepare it. I'm going to miss these hilarious recaps :((

do u think herb and Tom will pop up again on say, "Best piece of meat I ever ate" or healthy cooking w/herb? Hope so, they've totally grown on me

Brad wuz robbed! To avoid a snausage fest, the judges kicked him to the curb in favor of the less culinarily blessed Aarti and Aria, even tho Aarti's lack of self-confidence is crippling her and Aria is just not that great--mashed potato pizza? Sounds like it should be on a Friday's menu...in 1993.

Tom will win! He has the skills, consistently outperforming the others. As for the overly emotional Herb, grow some stones, chicks cry less than you. And your neurotic fear of fat is tiresome. I'd watch Tom over Guy "fake name" Fieri any day.

Padma's gator belly is a pouch for her baby to sleep in--think: kangaroo. It doubles as fake abs!

Jillian Madison, you are the funniest; I don't care what happens on these stupid shows, as long as you write the recaps my day is made!

Jimmies is racist, no matter what Snopes says, plus everyone knows that New England is more bigoted than the South ever was, so that argument is out the window as well.

That said, who gives an eff, I'll still call em Jimmies.

"cake's porkiness"--two words that should never, ever be together. Barf.

This is the most kick-a** thing I've seen all day. Amazing.

Congratulations! Serious Eaters know when to stop. You'll be fitting in your skinny jeans in no time :)

Wow, what an original concept: eating the food you make yourself at home! The American people have never done THAT before. I think Mme Michelle should issue a communique mandating that all U.S. citizens stop eating out; moreover, we can only shop for groceries in a sardine can-sized vehicle that gets at least 35 mpg...Or, perhaps we should simply hire a private chef, as the Obama family did back in Chicago.

Dijon mustard is delicious and versatile, and I'll wager that French plebes love the stuff--there goes the elitist argument. There are plenty of reasons to knock Obama, most of them political, IMO, so critiquing his choice of condiment is silly.

I'm one of those desperate, grasping at straws republicans, and I put it on everything :)

I do not look to the government to dictate what I should or should not eat. It tends to ruin everything it touches in the food arena (e.g. government cheese, policies toward American Indian populations, food pyramid). Just because we have a president whose wife has a vegetable garden means nothing for substantive policy changes when it comes to nutrition, farming, etc. Also, I don't think Obama gives two beets about food politics. He's too busy cultivating his own image.

I agree with the other posters: please keep government & politics out of Serious Eats. That's one of the reasons I love reading and talking about food--political affiliation shouldn't matter here.

Unless you're stranded in the Canadian wilderness a la Hatchet, why bother? I prefer my food NOT to give me a rash.

I try to replace refined white sugar and brown sugar with maple syrup, honey, and agave syrup. For diabetics (me), sugars with a lower glycemic index are better because they are used more slowly by the body. Also, sometimes they change the nature of the sweetness for the better. Works well in bars, quickbreads.

But nothing beats regular sugar in cookies for texture and mouth feel.

Natural peanut butter, sliced dill pickle, yellow raisins on whole wheat bread. Perfect when you're pregnant.