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  1. Ok, speaking as someone who grew up in this particular neighborhood. When it was something small-ish where everyone knew everyone else invited, normally things would get piled on a bed in one of the kids' rooms. However, some larger events where there were different groups of friends with a mutual friend coming together had coat/bag checks. That being said, I was at a very large holiday party with a coat check and someone stole my cashmere overcoat (that I had saved up money for from my jobs for years, because I always wanted one.) So I can understand why purses were being carried at AM's event.
  2. I read the ending slightly differently than you, Spartan Girl. I figured Loki could see any of his friends by focusing on them and their branch which was why he had a small smile at the end. He was seeing Mobius discover his variant's world and life and Sophie going to discover what her unwritten future held.
  3. I was frustrated that they had the family seder plate displayed in the kitchen while serving bagels for brunch, because the seder plate is used during Passover when we don't have any leavened bread products in the house. But the focus on the Ketubah was really lovely and I wept like a baby when Jake Epstein's character's mom took his dad's tallit out of her keepsakes box for the Chuppah.
  4. I have to cheer for Truely bringing a book to Disneyland. I started doing that when I was about 8 and it made the lines substantially more pleasant. When I was in college, I'd actually go to the park to study (I went back to school in my 30s and had an annual pass.) I'm so glad to see her so comfortable with David and being herself no matter where she is.
  5. I've used a number of different meal kits over the past 6-7 years. We started with Blue Apron and enjoyed it for a good while, and then the repetition of the flavors and dishes started getting tiresome so we put it on hold and I first tried Sunbasket which wasn't a good choice for me because I have food allergies and they sent a ton of pre-fab sauces that often had ingredients I was allergic to. We switched to Plated which we enjoyed for years until they went out of business. We then moved to Gobble which was darn good, but once we moved to NorCal the distribution center started making too many mistakes and we cancelled the service after 2 years of use. We're now using Marley Spoon and I'm very very happy with the recipes, and the quality of the ingredients.
  6. If she belongs to a Reform or Reconstructionist synagogue, a child can be Jewish via patrilineal or matrilineal descent. Conservative, and Orthodox Judaism recognizes matrilineal descent only. This has been the case since the late 70s & early 80s with the Reform and Reconstructionist movements. It's a way to include the children of interfaith relationships and help them to feel part of the community.
  7. Every time they mention Spice, I think it's a crossover with Dune, where Spice is the key to space travel. That's such a key term from a major sci-fi epic, that I can't believe it's a simple illegal drug. It's making me nuts.
  8. As someone who grew up in Bel Air and Beverly Hills, I can definitely second this. My mother, who has two Ph.Ds, has never used a debit or ATM card in her life. She somehow doesn't trust them, and it seems really common with her group of friends. They all go into the bank if they need cash and still use checks all the time. This includes a few of her friends who were actually in banking.
  9. I can only speak for The Lime Truck because they're local to me here in Orange County. After their first season Jason left to open his restaurant Playground in downtown Santa Ana, (it's walking distance from my house which is very dangerous to my waistline.) Daniel kept going with the truck and opened two brick and mortar restuarants, both fast casual called TLT Food. There's one at the Irvine Spectrum and one in Westwood near UCLA. Jason's restaurant has expanded their space several times, he has a 18 seat tasting kitchen next to it called Playground 2.0 or Trust (it depends on what they're doing that night food wise.) There was no way he'd leave everything to compete again. The restaurant is just starting to get back up and running more normally here. I will say, if you're near here, the restaurant is worth every dime and you should definitely make an effort to eat there. We're getting ready to move and it may be the thing I miss the most when we leave Orange County food-wise.
  10. For a number of American Jews, the narrative was that their families got out well before the war when their grandparents or great grandparents emigrated around the turn of the century. I didn't find out until I was in my early 20s that while my grandfather and his siblings all left Lodz well before the war, his sisters who had left returned back to Lodz with their husbands and children in the mid 1930s and were all killed in the Holocaust. Up until that point, the narrative in my family was that maybe very distant cousins had been killed as part of the Shoah. I had the exact same reaction as Mandy did when I found out that story was absolutely false, and I had asked growing up as well many times.
  11. There is a bunch better prep option now using Miralax that a lot of GI MDs use instead of GoLightly or one of those other grossly flavored preps. I felt for MeeMaw and Dale drinking that awful liquid even though it wasn't real.
  12. I just keep rolling my eyes at Rachel making a huge deal that the crab is Petrossian King Crab. Petrossian is a retailer of specialty foods, most known for Caviar and Foie Gras. They don't catch the crab, they just resell it and it's already cooked and in a vacuum sealed package. You want to make a big deal about something? Get the "ethically" farmed Spanish Foie Gras and hype that instead. I also couldn't get over what looked like a couscous salad with crab from Mendocino Farms as the main for lunch. I'm sure her food is good, but I'm not impressed with what she's serving so far. Everything has seemed like something you could get at a decent restaurant and not something that's Thomas Keller level.
  13. Private school in LA here. We had a number of hours we had to do every year in order to advance to the next grade and they increased each year from 7th to 12th. I was shocked at how these kids behaved as someone who grew up in a similar environment. That tip made me want to reach through the screen and smack sense into them. Rachel's food looked fantastic, and I would have jumped at that Oo-Toro last week.
  14. Seeing Tammy's empathy for what Adam goes through and having her relate it to her own experiences was a stroke of brilliance. It's something you see in childhood development and to see someone in recovery express it showed a maturity that isn't often shown on tv! We're adding those into our cabinets because I'm only 5'4" and my partner is 6'5". They aren't cheap, but they're fantastic. They're made by Rev-A-Shelf. There are even better ones out there, but they'd require replacement of the cabinets and our house is only 5 years old, so we can't justify it.
  15. Listening to the Drag Her podcast this week with one of the producer/writers, a few things suddenly made sense. Apparently all season Ru had a different phone each week to "call" the Lip Sync Assassin, and it didn't make the air. She also said that the music cut out during this week's lip sync and they had to start over, which may have changed the energy of the performances.
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