dmlaenker

They may have plenty of high-tech jobs and tasty coffee and outdoorsy charm, but surely the endless, soul-crushing rain and gray skies have to be a factor here. I believe the winter skies in Vancouve...

Oh, Fixx. You win this time.......

Anyone who's taken a cursory ride down Georgia Ave can see where 7-Elevens have gone out of business if they look clearly enough. Don't worry, it'll be replaced by something else. Don't know that it'...

I'd imagine you'll generally find better/cheaper food at Virginia strip clubs than DC ones, if only because a large amount of food sales will help them satisfy the particularly convoluted accounting r...

What I find interesting is that they haven't whitewashed "Cafe Putain qui Pue". Do they just not know what that means?...

I was trying to reply to Martin Austermuhle, sorry....

I went out there once just to try it. Honestly, the use of a somewhat crunchy broetchen rather than a big warm fluffy pita was somewhat off-putting to me. I think regionally, Urfa has come closest to...

Mabo doufu love! I make it all the time, not least because it's very savory, fairly easy and not entirely bad for you. When I'm not feeling lazy I tend to go by the NHK recipe, which calls for pulled...

Wait, I didn't want to respond to this. WTF?...

Yes, but toban djan can be hard to find. In that case I generally substitute miso and sriracha or some other chile sauce/puree....

Five flags. Five burning flags....

The sheer volume of incompetent and uninteresting Sicilian hosts on the Food Network has me convinced it's owned or controlled by the mafia....

That would be pretty hilarious, but how is that even possible?...

What's with this sleeping-on-cots business? Why do congresscritters actually want to suffer while they're in Washington? Do they just hate this city and everyone who lives in it more than they value t...

"Delivered to the State"? Um... what "state" is there to deliver the schools to, exactly?...