I wrote about the Funhouse Guillotine, a treasured family heirloom that allows me to perfectly shape the webbed feet of a squash goose.

I wrote about xanthan, a beautiful name for a baby and an excellent tool for home cooks. Bonus: a recipe for Snot Gruel.

“Did you know chemo can damage your taste buds? That was news to me. Cancer is like an IRS audit, or the music of Ted Nugent—we all have some baseline awareness of it, but if we’re lucky, we never have to learn the particulars.” haterade.substack.com/p/tastes-lik...

Here’s @lizcookkc.bsky.social from the top rope

Please make my recipe for PARTY CORN.

Cleaning up the dream journal.

Have put out a bunch of recipes for Serious Eats lately, and I think you should make them! 1. Kansas City Steak Soup. Born in one KC steakhouse, diffused to many others, this is functionally a drunken, pinkies-up vegetable beef soup. www.seriouseats.com/kansas-city-...

Are we on the cusp of Taco Pizza Summer? Many people are asking.

The era of self-serious sex symbols trying to min-max dinner is over. Welcome to the era of Big Goons Making Goon Food. New Haterade: haterade.substack.com/p/cooking-wi...

I just think @lizcookkc.bsky.social is cool :) www.seriouseats.com/iowa-taco-pi...

Chasing the vibes of the white Milwaukee dad pushing his son in a running stroller while performing a faithful but vigorous rendition of “Smack That” by Akon.

Ran into Bob Dylan’s local catering team at a bar in Topeka last night and can confirm he ate chili and cinnamon rolls before the show. Midwest King.

“Wonderful.” The lemon is puking out his internal organs and you call it wonderful.

At least Kim Reynolds is having a bad night, too.

Thrilled to see Lady Gaga has finally released a song about Lucas, KS.

ISO someone who can help me track down a copy of Windows 95.

Each day, I get a little bit closer to achieving my lifelong dream of living in a Pizza Hut.

To be frank, I’m surprised it took *two* Super Bowl wins for this team to develop a humiliation kink.

I do not consider myself a lucky person, but I *have* successfully eaten In-A-Tub while wearing a white t-shirt in my car on a moonless night.

Greetings from Dallas County, IA. @jedportman.bsky.social

You: Midwestern food is bland and boring! Me: Who else up late kurbising they stumbus

"The flavors correspond to three alluring shapes: a four-leaf clover, a cactus, and a big rig rendered from the POV of a person about to be mowed down by it." New from me on America's premier confectioner, Shaquille O'Neal: