Recent Comments

  • NG: Don’t know the film, but if you still haven’t gotten Advil by mid-April, let me know.
  • Ben-Yehudah: B”H It must have been frickin’ freezing out there (Mr. Bigglesworth – name that film!)...
  • Eric: The reason people arrive early to get into Costco when it opens, I believe, is because they run restaurants or...
  • NG: You can of course do the open collar, as long as you’re wearing something under it or over it.
  • Vicki: I love the Israeli dress code. I wish I were a guy just so I could do the open collar.

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@natges

    America in 140 characters or fewer

    Last month I went to visit America for a couple weeks and I recorded the entire trip on the Twitter. Here are all my tweets, from the minute my vacation began to when I got back home. Sorry they’re in reverse order – I can’t find a tool that will export them from first to [...]

    Just give me gas

    Tuesday: I returned home from vacation and, without delay, went grocery shopping and cooked meals in advance so I could prepare them for dinners in the coming days.

    Wednesday: In the middle of preparing my dinner, the gas went out. Damn it. I called the gas company, Paz Gaz (that’s right, English speakers, an Israeli gas [...]

    Chicken Shnitzel

    Read it and weep, people. Here I am in The Atlantic, holding forth on one of my favorite topics: chicken shnitzel.

    My contention is, and has been on many occasions, that chicken shnitzel is the authentic Israeli cuisine because it is the only notable dish invented by Jews in Israel that’s culturally accessible to all [...]

    Marie at Cafe Sonia

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    Leeor at Cafe Sonia

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    Worship

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    Extra buttery popcorn

    Why was I not in the room when someone figured out that the best way to make extra buttery popcorn is first to make popcorn and then add extra butter?

    The sparks must really have been flying that day. Imagine the other ideas those people must have gone through before reaching the correct one: the way [...]

    Alpha's Meat Store

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    Radish Man

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    America, part 1: at a glance

    Ever wondered what I do when I go to America? So have I. Here’s a step-by-step breakdown of how I spent my winter vacation.

    Day 1: JFK, Reagan, AT&T, T-Mobile, Chipotle, Costco, CVS, Lenscrafters, chicken tenders, cookies, Benny Lava

    Day 2: pancakes, online glasses shopping, Kohl’s, Popeye’s, Goodwill, AT&T, Buca di Beppo

    Day 3: Costco, Pizza Hut, At&t, [...]