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so funny. I made this too but used some sour cream + yogurt because I only had nonfat yogurt, and I added tabasco. I was nervous bc Heidi from 101 Cookbooks was actually a guest at the party and I had tweaked the recipe a bit... I'll try the worcestershire next time too!

spice thai is cheap and good with a nice decor, hipster vibe, good sangria

Not to be a hippie or anything, but all I can think of him when seeing him in these places is: is it worth the ginormous carbon footprint to fly around the world and make these videos? Seems a tad irresponsible.

I totally felt the same way when I clicked through to the article only to find it was about FRANCIS Bacon. Gosh darn it.

look at 101cookbooks.com- she has some good ones on there to choose from!

I'm kind of late on this but it is so exciting to learn more about people! For me: I'm Karen, age 31, born and raised in the wonderful food city of San Francisco, with 5 year stints in San Diego and Brooklyn. I was a pastry chef but I got sick of the lifestyle so I founded an
online t-shirt subscription company which makes cooking at home SO much more fun. I make a lot of mistakes when I cook which still surprises me. I write about food at off the (meat)hook and I really enjoy the good natured community of Serious Eaters- y'all are SO much less bitchy than chowhounders :) I love meat, and bacon. And butter, and salt.

It's good to marinate meat in liquor- breaks it down and tenderizes it.

Those are good tips, but I'm not sure you can "lay claim" to them- my grandma did the cheese cloth thing, and we were taught the tablespoon apple coring thing in culinary school years back...

Love all the comments, glad to know I am not the only clumsy one!

I dropped a whole upside-down cake on the floor... a little overachieving on the upside-down part I guess... but people ate it! And you know what... we lived to tell the tale...

Every single person who has tasted these (myself included) has later declared them their "new favorite cookie" - I swear!

Robert's Chewy Amazing Oatmeal Date Cookies

People who say stuff like "Real Jambalaya does not have x, y, or z" are just silly. Who is to say what's real and not real?

Anyway who would be anti- putting together more and more delicious meats?!?! :)

The same thing happened in Oakland, CA, a few years ago. There was a "Roscoe's House of Chicken & Waffles" there but if you were a true LA Roscoe's aficionado it was clearly not the same thing. They had to change the name to "Home of Chicken and Waffles." So it's not as good as LA Roscoe's but on the plus side it's open til 4 AM on the weekends...
http://www.hcwchickenandwaffles.net/

You know what, I never could eat very spicy food- a little spicy, OK, but not really spicy- and then I spent about a week in Chengdu (China), in the super spicy Sichuan province. They are famous for their food, especially street foods, but ALL of the food there is filled with loads of hot peppers. At first it was pretty painful but then I started enjoying the food more.

When we got to our next stop, in NE China where there is a lot of Russian-influenced food... there I was throwing hot chilies on everything! It tasted so boring after I got used to the spice! So I think you can get used to it... maybe a trip to China or India is in order for you if you want to become a spice lover :)

(You can check out pictures and descriptions of the Chengdu eats in a 2-part blog post: Part 1 and Part 2.)