The New Yorker

[joethefoodie]

Will do.

 

I liked that Remnick wrote the Comment and that he found a perfect quote from E.B. White. That sense of continuity is reassuring right now.

 

 So I read the Remnick piece aloud to Significant Eater at breakfast this morning, and couldn't get through it without crying a bit. 

 

And then more when I decamped to the kitchen, alone.

[joethefoodie]

And I think I stood and looked at Las Meninas for a good 15 minutes. So much to see in that museum, I only hope I can go back one day.

[Wilfrid]

Yes indeed.

[voyager]

 

 

 So I read the Remnick piece aloud to Significant Eater at breakfast this morning, and couldn't get through it without crying a bit. 

 

And then more when I decamped to the kitchen, alone.

 

I have given up trying to read poignant pieces to Chuck.   I just hand him the section and leave the room.   

[Tubbs]

That whole Talk of the Town section was overwhelming.

[Wilfrid]

The profile of Fauci is fascinating. I had no idea about his role in the AIDS crisis.

[AaronS]

my mom used to work for him in the 80s and was pretty impressed by him.

[small h]

I worked at Beth Israel in the early 90's, as an administrative assistant to the chief of infectious diseases. My boss ran the clinical trials for AIDS patients, when AZT was still called ZDV. She and Tony Fauci spoke pretty much every day.

[Steve R.]

Did I catch a reference by Stephen Colbert the other night that his father was Fauci's (not immediate) predecessor?

[Sneakeater]

Fuck.  So the reason my omelettes are sub-par is because I use a whisk instead of a fork?  But I have a plastic (or rather some miracle material) whisk, whereas my forks are all metal.  Yet I make my omelettes, as everyone tells me to, in a non-stick pan.  If you're not a famous chef getting constant freebies (or deducting the cost of pans as a business expense), how do you use a fork to mess around eggs in a non-stick pan, without quickly ruining the pan?  (I guess I need to find a miracle-material fork.)

[joethefoodie]

You use a properly seasoned carbon-steel omelet pan!

[Anthony Bonner]

use a silicone spatula after using a fork in a bowl.  You'll be fine - even if Joe is obviously correct.

[joethefoodie]

use a silicone spatula after using a fork in a bowl.  You'll be fine - even if Joe is obviously correct.

Or one of these, and you'll be fine - even if AB is obviously correct.

 

https://www.surlatable.com/sur-la-table-silicone-ultimate-fork/PRO-3419090.html

[Behemoth]

use a silicone spatula after using a fork in a bowl. You'll be fine - even if Joe is obviously correct.

Yeah that’s what i do as well. The whisk is bad because it over-aerates the eggs (before they hit the pan.)

 

And by the way I used to do them with a fork in a special seasoned non-non-stick pan. But then I got a life or something.

[Wilfrid]

If you wanted an example of a singer with a "burly" voice, would you choose Robert Plant?

Amanda Petrusich would.