TIL There is a subreddit called RateMyTortilla to rate one’s Spanish tortilla*.

  • basically an egg, potato, and onion omelette. One cooks thinly-sliced potato and onion low and slow in olive oil, strains, cools, combines with eggs, cooks low and slow, flips, and finishes. Yum.

Lasagne.

TIL: “roller coaster” in Russian “американские горки” (“Amerikanskiye gorki”) translates literally to “American hills”.

It’s pretty much the opposite of the fascinating origin of “roller coaster” in Spanish, which is “montaña rusa” or “Russian mountain.”

No, but yes?

Asked ChatGPT if 53 is a prime number. It responded:

“No, 53 is a prime number…”

Here’s the result. Tastes good. (Phew!)

Mise en place for tadka dal. My first time, so I hope it comes out well.

Let’s add insurance companies (here’s looking at you, Farmers) to the list of companies which block Americans traveling abroad:

codecookread.com/dont-bloc…

Wow! @lex gets a (mis-)mention in The Atlantic: “These days, millions of young men orient their lives around the Joe Rogan–Lex Friedman–Andrew Huberman social ideal…”