Me, next April!

When next I order some junk from Amazon,

do I not need to also order a robot bug for the cats? I think I do! They walk around like roombas, supposedly, if they get in a corner they come out...these could be the thing that send Picci to the psych ward at the Dryden Rd Emergency Vet! A must!

"Can't believe you wasted seven towels on this guy..."

Goodfellas, only shitty!

Chefs LOVE this! Try it!

When a pal who is a professional chef is cooking something for you, be sure to stand around unnecessarily saying "So...what's that you're doing there?" Especially if he is just, y'know, chopping.

Trust me!

Image dump

That Splendid Table lady

Also, I was wondering what the host of the Splendid Table radio show could possibly look like and she looks like this:

I always picture Joyce Carol Oates when I hear her, so I was a bit surprised at this.

Black garlic

Have been surprisingly out of the loop on this until a friend mentioned it - I thought maybe it was some odd breed of garlic that is making inroads into US culture from its homeland along the rough shores of the Caspian Sea or some such, but it turns out it's garlic that has been fermented, and, given the descriptions I've read, I would bet it's like fermented black beans, yet somehow more impossibly epic. I do remember after prom in high school, when I first had some fermented black bean paste, because Joe Miller's freethinking dad Ellis provided some with the egg rolls (?).

Let's just hope/pray, as a people, that this proves to be as revelatory.