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“Because they don’t have pasta on the outside and very little flour inside, this also means that malfatti are practically ”safe” for the many Atkins dieters who in their puzzling fervor would seem rather to eat lard than a tangle of spaghetti.” http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/17/magazine/naked-came-the-pasta.html

“7. Wake up on Thanksgiving without killing any relatives.” The Awl always delivers. Always.

“Back inside, ______ posed for a picture with the determinedly ubiquitous socialite _________ — accidental fame, side by side with its opposite.” Kelefa Sanneh (The New Yorker)

“But the recipe takes about two hours of active labor and dirties about 10 pans and bowls.” ha! no thank you. (Thomas Keller’s new book)

“I am all in favor of forcible vaccination; anti-vaccine activists are degenerate idiots who deserve to get polio and live out their days in iron lungs while Child Protective Services takes away their children to be properly raised. Or tetanus. Get lockjaw and shut up and die. What’s the point of living in 21st-century America if not to avoid dying of stupid, easily preventable disease? You just like listening to Miley Cyrus?” Tom Socca, The Awl

“Life has been good to Lenny Kravitz. Despite sucking terribly, he’s been able to make lots of money, have sex with women like Lisa Bonet, Nicole Kidman, and Adriana Lima, and island-hop the Mediterranean on yachts. I guess he’s made his contribution, by teaching us a lesson about the essential unfairness of everything. So that’s cool.” Dave Bry