avocado
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Today I Discovered The NSFW Origin Of The Word ‘Avocado’
We all know about avocados – delicious, green, creamy, expensive, irresistible to hipsters and guaranteed to keep you from buying a house. But have you ever stopped to question just why an avocado is called an avocado? The answer, perhaps unsurprisingly, has to do with humanity’s unending obsession with genitalia.
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Don’t Bother Trying To Build Your Own Poke Bowl
Photo by H G. As someone who writes about how to make delicious food, I am all about DIY-ing your own versions of tasty, trendy dishes. In a lot of cases, a homemade version of something will taste better and cost you less money, but this is not the situation with the poke bowl.
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Stop Trying To Force Avocados To Ripen And Let Time Do Its Job
Look, I am obviously a big fan of shortcuts, but there if there is one thing we as a society need to give up on, it is the expedited ripening of the avocado. This isn’t just like, my opinion, man; Cook’s Illustrated feels the same way.