It's Thanksgiving, and you know what that means? It's time to eat some seasonally appropriate food like turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, and cranberry sauce! It's so interesting that most of us eat the same thing for Thanksgiving every year. Imagine what Thanksgiving would be like if we drank mashed potato-flavored wine instead of red wine. What if we stuffed the bird with baked beans? What if, instead of slicing congealed cranberry sauce from a can, we sliced congealed gravy? Unfortunately,…

Don't talk to me until I've had coffee

It seems like a couple of years ago, all of our friends were baking beautiful loaves of artisan bread and sharing their creations on Instagram. There was also that banana bread phase, the Beef Wellington phase (Thanks, New York Times). I don't bake, but I posted my fair share of foodstagrams during the pandemic. But after a while, I kind of lost interest in sharing. I even lost interest in c ooking. Being forced to cook all my own meals for a few years kind of took some of the joy from the proc…

I must start this off by saying that I am not a person of the British persuasion. While many Gen-Z Americans get their knowledge of British culture from Harry Potter or Doctor Who, I got mine from a far more embarrassing source: Season 2 of RuPaul's Drag Race UK. Before then, I had no idea what Greggs, Pantomime, or Eastenders was, but now I've finally seen the light. The spin-off of the American drag competition show stars British contestants, two British judges and airs on the BBC, but it sti…

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