Hadn’t thought about my school fight song in years.

look I don’t care WHAT color the rat is, you should NOT be using it to make boho furniture

My first Serious Eats recipe! Although I have now eaten enough cheesy corn for a lifetime, I’m proud of this one, and I hope you make it.

n.b. for politicos making the journey: our martinis at The Peppermill were $6, and the best appetizer is off-menu: grilled garlic bread with steak jus for dipping.

New Harmony, IN.

Revisited more than 30 spots over the past few months to bring you this update to the @eater KC barbecue map. As always, I left off your favorite to punish you. You know why. eater.com/maps/best-barb…

Hello from the Monument Marathon in Scottsbluff, NE, where the course is beautiful and the race swag is a pound of dried beans.

Updated KC’s essential restaurant list for Eater. Read on for a tourist’s guide to some of the best (or most distinctive) spots in town. eater.com/maps/best-rest…

Organization during slow times: perfectly synced electronic calendars with reminders and alarms. Organization under pressure: eight illegible but absolutely essential Post-It notes disbursed unevenly across three geographic locations.

Haterade is back! This week, I answer reader questions about obnoxious home cooking projects, Japanese food in KC, and whether we should all lick the floors at restaurants. Read: haterade.substack.com/p/making-pasta…

Happy New Year from Haterade! I regret to announce that I have written about turkey bacon: haterade.substack.com/p/turkey-bacon…

"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: haterade.substack.com/p/i-regret-to-…

Greetings from Dallas County, IA.

Honda makes electrical tape coated in capsaicin to keep mice away. In this 3yo post now trending on HN, Liz Cook uses it for culinary purposes. Read it, will put a big smile on your face. haterade.substack.com/p/i-tasted-hon…

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

did the doctor from arrested development write this

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

He yearns for the Midwest

Cleaning out the dream journal.

“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.” New Haterade: haterade.substack.com/p/tastes-like-…