Score These Meats and Vegetables Before Cooking

Score These Meats and Vegetables Before Cooking
When I’m cooking, I always keep a lookout for flavor and texture opportunities, particularly for tough ingredients. One of my favorite ways to do this is by scoring them. (“Scoring” as in partially cutting them, not “scoring” like obtaining them. But that’s important too.) Not only does this simple technique build in...
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Apple Made a Sports Score App Without the Ads

Apple Made a Sports Score App Without the Ads
Basically every sports app is a bloated nightmare. You just want to check the scores, but these apps want you to do something else entirely (maybe gambling?). Whether I'm using official league apps or one offered by a broadcaster like ESPN, it always takes a few taps to get what I want—and that's after I've waited for...
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The Out of Touch Adults’ Guide to Kid Culture: The TikTok Chocolate-Covered Strawberries, Explained

The Out of Touch Adults’ Guide to Kid Culture: The TikTok Chocolate-Covered Strawberries, Explained
All decent people look back at their youth and think, "I sure was a callow idiot" (but hopefully in an affectionate way). Remembering the combination of grandiosity and dumb-i-osity that you once embodied is really the key to understanding younger people, because what could be grander and dumber than making a bowl of...
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