banana to banana communication (ethylene)

Once again it is strawberry and basil season. Thank goodness they go so well together.

The little-known sequel to The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck’s Despairagus.

“Looks like a tom kha soup kind of situation.”

“What we’ve got here is a sweet and sour tofu kind of situation.”

Once again my thoughts turn to buckwheat pancakes, which I regard with great fondness.

Periodically I will catch an episode of Great Chefs on Twitch's Hungry channel and it consistently has the worst audio of any cooking show I've ever seen; unavoidably so given the show concept (showcasing actual chefs who work in restaurants.) Commercial kitchens are loud and not optimized for sound. It really makes me appreciate the massive amount of work that must go into recording and audio mixing cooking shows so that you can hear anything that's going on at all.

Hypothesis: The ridges on a peanut butter cup or pie tart serve the same purpose as similar adaptations found in nature; namely, increasing the surface to volume ratio while otherwise maintaining the same overall shape and layout.

If you’re going to use “social” as a noun, could you at least dignify it with the prefix “ice cream”?