November: Best of the Internet
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It’s National Gratitude Month, so please be grateful that I skimmed the internet for you, and put together this list of the best digital media to consume over your Thanksgiving break. Cheers!
Read Before Heading Home for Thanksgiving:
Bad (Pot) Luck: What do you do if the dish you brought to Friendsgiving is a total flop? ‘I personally like to stand near the snack table and say, “Have you tried that casserole? I don’t know who made it but I need to get the recipe.”’ Hint: Next time just volunteer to bring the booze.
How to Say No During Wedding Season: Your Facebook feed is full of reminders that it’s never not wedding season, but as the holidays commence, the spike in betrothals from our dearly beloveds is inevitable. First comes love, then comes the bridal shower invitation — or three. As my dear sweet engaged friend said after announcing she’s not having a bridal party, “y’all don’t need that negativity in your life.” So read Rachel Wilkerson Miller’s guide to setting boundaries for yourself when attending every wedding event becomes too much.
The End of Babies: Seems like people are having children later — or not at all, for reasons that are attributed to millennials being noncommittal, lazy, or scared of our planet burning. Even in Denmark, where millennials don’t have the same barriers to entry, in fact, they have everything most Americans would want for a child: socialized healthcare, free education, a YEAR of paid family leave, etc. Yet they, too, aren’t having babies.
How NOT to treat your in-laws: Ask Polly answers a letter from a woman whose in-laws are literally poisoning her by purposefully making food to which she’s fatally allergic.
What to Eat that Isn’t Leftover Turkey:
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Nothing Fancy: Alison Roman’s latest conglomerate of no-fuss, inspired meals is sure to impress even the most hard-to-please of mothers-in-law. The grilled halloumi takes about five minutes, and makes you look like you know what halloumi is. Pro Tip: it’s always carried at Whole Foods (which my dad calls Whole Paycheck), and can occasionally be found at Trader Joes for a lesser price. You can also find Roman’s recipes in the NYT Cooking column.
TASTE’S Sausage-Fennel Lasagna Rolls Recipe: The dinner of my dreams; that’s all.
The Apple Cider Donut is who it is. Humble, simple, underrated. Never flashy, always there when you need something sweet, perfect at every temperature. I wish I had written this, and I will keep making people read it every fall.
To Watch After that Tryptophan Hits:
Season 5 of Schitt’s Creek, now streaming on Netflix: A wealthy family forced to start over in a podunk town in this award-winning show featuring the genius hilarity of Catharine O’Hara. Here’s the trailer for season 6.
Modern Love on Amazon Prime: Eight short episodes adapted from New York Times essays in the column of the same name. Watch this star-studded cast explore love from all angles: adoption, single motherhood, mental illness, and grief.
Parasite: Class discrimination motivates a hard-working family to infiltrate the lives of wealthy socialites. Come for the heart-wrenching character development, stay for the devastating thrills. Worth seeing in theaters.