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The system us different in the UK; my understanding is sixth form college is the final part of secondary school for those who want to qualify for post-secondary education, basically equivalent to junior and senior year but not mandatory (which is why Adam could opt not to go). For this reason, Brits only refer to undergrad as university, whereas in the US a university is specifically an institution that grants graduate degrees. Almost everyone acted really obtusely. Jo certainly could have been more considerate, not just by not getting plastered but at the very least by not planting herself between Otis and Maeve, and Jackson knew how much Viv likes Beau.

I did not mind the Santos campaign storyline, but I always thought it would have been more interesting, story-wise, to have Vinnick win. That might not meet the WW wish-fulfillment brief, but it seeing how all the stalwarts adjusted to that transition might have been more compelling.

I know these as Francois Payard’s flourless chocolate walnut cookies, which I first made years ago (this version is all over the web). I also find your standard meringue cookies (like forgotten cookies) way too sweet.

https://www.gamesradar.com/sex-education-season-4-finale-feature-length-netflix/ Season 4 drops on September 21.

When Mimi, who could sell fire to Phoenix in August, doesn’t really try, you know your look is not headed for glory.

Also where the Obamas have their Chicago manse.

Gotta take advantage of peak summer fruit, so blackberry and apricot shortcake. I macerated the fruit with a sprinkle of sugar and a little peach liqueur while we ate dinner.

Rami was on S4 (with Christian), and Korto and Leanne were on S5. And Leanne didn’t do the “petals” all season, it was just the through-line of her winning final season.

Fun bit of cast trivia: I listened to the most recent episode of the It’s Not Only Football podcast, with Jesse Plemons (they’re talking about the beginning of Season 2 and the murder, among other things), and he kind of blew Scott Porter and Zach Gilford's minds with the news that the actors who played Devin and the Swede are married. Apparently, they’re both musicians in real life, and met some years ago at a music f3stkval.

Bagel-shaped quick breads, maybe. But the baking powder measurement has to be a typo. Four and a half tablespoons is more than a quarter cup. Teaspoons, perhaps? The writing on that whole post is pretty sloppy.

She uses the reverse creaming method for all her butter cakes, which produces a fine, soft crumb.

I’m of the opinion that Anya’s aesthetic was basically caftans because she didn’t know how to sew — in contrast to Uli in S3, who had a similar aesthetic, but had the skills to easily step outside when necessary. Anya stated she learned to sew specifically to enter, and she could not set a sleeve without help from her fellow contestants. What Anya had in spades was style, and she was telegraphed as the favorite from the get-go. Her coasting to the win was a big reason I stopped watching until the show returned to Bravo.

@annzeepark914, thank you!

And there we have it.

Yep. Both Callebaut (which calls them “chocolate crispearls”) and Valrhona (“chocolate crispy pearls”) make them, and they’re virtually identical in size, appearance, and consistency. As the descriptions imply, they’re some kind of crispy substance coated in chocolate. They’re also available in milk chocolate.

Thanks, and yes, it’s very tangy and lemony and moist and frankly, everything I want in a lemon cake. It’s definitely a bit of a faff, with all the egg yolks (my freezer is full of egg whites now), but worth it for a party.

My brother and I threw a party for our mother’s milestone birthday last weekend, and I baked the cakes. One was a ridiculously tall, three-layer chocolate stout cake with brown butter cream cheese icing between the layers and covered with coffee-brown sugar ermine icing. (I am decidedly not a decorator, especially when pressed for time!) It was a challenge to cut thin slices (which were then halved horizontally) to serve, but luckily, my dad is good at that kind of thing. The second (and third) cakes were Rose Levy Beranbaum’s triple lemon velvet bundt cake, made with Meyer lemons from my folks’ backyard tree. I baked and syruped these two days ahead and glazed them the day before serving, and they were moist and thoroughly imbued with lemon flavor. Both cakes were big hits.

I’m fairly sure it has been used since the first season, when Katy Lee was host.

In Salon: How Padma Lakshmi grew from"Top Chef" host into the show's guiding core

It certainly didn’t help that production treated her not just as glamorous in the way she was presented, but as eye candy. I distinctly recall the season they had her emerging from the surf in a bikini in slo-mo, and some of the male contestants prompted to react in talking heads. I think things changed when she became (along with Tom) an executive producer. I imagine that as she’s developed more influence and cred, she has also affected how much attention they’ve paid to varied (i.e. non-European) food cultures, something that has really improved in recent seasons.

He’s certainly been a fine as a guest judge the multiple times he’s been on (based on the previews for the Season 20 finale, he’s reprising that role), and he is engaging. As an aside, I enjoyed his memoir, Yes Chef.

The season was filmed last autumn, though, so not when it’s light quite that late. Note how relatively bundled up they were in the outdoor scenes. They have said that judges' table can go for hours, especially when they’ve got a tough decision to make. I really hope the judges told Gabri about his comment at some point! However, Gabri was the only one of the four proficient enough in French to be able to effectively communicate his needs to the employees, as the editing contrasting this with the others failing to be understood in English pointedly showed.

Indeed, there were a litany of issues with the ill-fated Top Chef: Just Desserts, but Gail as host wasn’t one of them. She’s warm and personable, and obviously has a track record as judge. Whoever takes it on has to be willing to eat as much as Padma has noted she must, tasting every dish of every QF and EC, however.

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Based on fat percentage, at first glance this seems similar to European or American “European-style” butters, which are 82 percent and upwards butterfat (vs. the 80 percent USDA standard for American butter). But the statement, “Its high melting point makes it is extremely heat resistant” leads me to suspect that it is lower in milk solids (which readily burn) as well as water, but it’s impossible to know how that varies proportionately from other high-fat butters.