Snob

1. Say “is it okay if I take my pants off” before taking their pants off and remarking about how cute their underwear is and where they bought it.

2. Joke about having pillow fights in their underwear because that’s a cliched thing we’re told men fantasize about/think girls do when they’re alone together.

3. Talk about sex. Great sexual experiences, awkward sexual experiences, rude sexual experiences, what they like, what they hate, etc, etc, etc. If lots of liquor is involved, and the stars are aligned, demonstrations may follow.

4. Pull their hair into a messy knot on the tippy top of their head and lay in bed together, texting.

5. Sleep in the same bed and fall asleep giggling about nothing.

6. Give each other back rubs while watching TV.

7. Get each other Monday night wasted while ‘watching’ The Bachelor.

8. Tell each other secrets. Like, that they are worried about money or cheated on their boyfriend or that. Bragging is reserved for “I HAVE NEWS” texts or brunches and happy hours. Dark thoughts = secrets.

9. Do gross things like pick zits, belch, and talk about periods and UTIs.

10. Compare nipple sizes and breast texture.

11. Take several rounds of front-facing camera group selfies.

12. Gather around a lap top and creep on crushes or exes current girlfriends.

13. Disect the characters on reality television shows with the precision of doctoral psychology students.

14. Sit cross-legged on the floor and do their makeup in front of a mirror.

15. Alternatively, share their makeup until it’s in one gigantic, homogenous pile in the sink.

16. Ask questions about what they think the future will be like, or what they want to accomplish, or what kind of person they think they will end up with and give sincere, thoughtful answers.

17. Devour food in decidedly un-ladylike fervor.

18. Browse through their selfie collection and wonder aloud whether they were prettier in 2010, to a chorus of “um no”s.

19. Have Sheryl Crow debut album-era singalongs.

20. Face masks and deep conditioning.

21. Feel completely comfortable and happy and understood, for once.

For the latest edition of The Food Lab J. Kenji Lopez-Alt made 1,536 cookies in search of the perfect chocolate chip cookie.

"Tell me what you eat, and I'll tell you what you are." -- Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Background
Twenty years ago, a man's fantasy became a reality....

In 1993, "Ironmen of Cooking" (料理の鉄人 Ryōri no Tetsujin) premiered on Fuji Television.

A stylized cook-off, the show featured guest chefs challenging one of the show's resident "Iron Chefs" in a timed cooking battle built around a specific theme ingredient. While always a success in Japan [it ran for six years on Fuji TV, ending in 1999], Iron Chef became a surprise cult favorite in America when it was picked up by the Food Network and dubbed in English. Part of the U.S. appeal was due to the dubbing, which gave the show a campy charm that evoked English-dubbed Chinese kung fu movies of the 1970s. Audiences also found amusing some of the over-the-top culinary concoctions regularly featured on the show.

"Imagine Julia Child joining the WWF and moving to Asia...." — Matt Riggsby describes Iron Chef in Pyramid Magazine (2001)

The Iron Chefs
Each Iron Chef is classed according to cuisine specialty, and is presented to the viewers as a warrior defending that cuisine's honor from the challenger.
Iron Chefs Japanese: Roksaburu MIchiba (道場 六三郎), Koumei Nakamura (中村 孝明), Masaharu Morimoto ((森本 正治) and Jun Kurogi (黒木純)
Iron Chefs French: Yutaka Ishinabe (石鍋), Hiroyuki Sakai (坂井 宏行) and Yōsuke Suga (須賀 洋介)
Iron Chefs Chinese: Chen Kenichi ((陳 建) and Yuji Wakiya (脇屋 友詞)
Iron Chef Italian: Masahiko Kobe (神戸 勝彦)

The Chairman
Takeshi Kaga (鹿賀 丈史) is an actor who, among other stage and screen roles, played Jesus Christ in Japanese stage productions of Jesus Christ Superstar (1976), and Jean Valjean in Les Miserables in 1987. You can hear him in 'Who Am I?' and at the beginning of 'One Day More' on the official soundtrack. He was also one of the 17 Valjeans singing "Do You Hear The People Sing" during the 10th anniversary concert in London. He's also done commercials for Nissan. As Chairman Kaga on Iron Chef, he's fun, flamboyantly over-the-top and a total ham.

"It's easy to get caught up in the dramatic lighting, editing, and sound effects. And then you remember you're watching a cooking show." -- TV Tropes

Battle Rules / Show Format
At the top of each show, Chairman Kaga unveils the theme ingredient. Each Chef has one hour to prepare a multi-course meal and each dish they create must utilize that ingredient. Once the dishes are prepared, a panel of guest judges determines "which chef best expresses the unique qualities of the theme ingredient." In the event of a tie, the Chairman casts the deciding vote. Challengers who beat an Iron Chef win "the people's ovation and fame forever." The average number of different dishes chefs create in an hour is four, and depending on the number of judges, five or six servings are prepared from each dish: one for each of the judges, one for Chairman Kaga and another for photography.

Before the actual taping, the chefs are given a short list of possible themes, allowing the producers of the show to obtain any ingredients that may be needed.

Throughout the show, running commentary is provided by announcer Kenji Fukui, who talks about various ingredients, the chefs and the finished dishes -- usually peppered with sports metaphors. He is joined by Yukio Hattori, principal of Hattori Nutrition College as well as one or two of the guest judges. There is also a floor reporter who provides additional details and brief quotes from (and interviews with) the challenger and iron chef.

Aside from "Allez Cuisine" the phrase most often associated with Iron Chef is "Fukui-san!". "Uttered by floor reporter Shinichiro Ohta, it was usually followed with an enthusiastic "GO!" by Fukui. And go Ohta did. Like a three year old on Red Bull, Ohta would quickly rattle off the laundry list of ingredients in a dish and follow it up with a humorous anecdote about the Iron Chef's attitude or errors. You got the feeling that the hardest working person in the room wasn't the chef who had to create a culinary feast within an hour but Ohta who, in the same hour, managed to find time to keep up with 50 ingredients in 10 dishes while still having long philosophical conversations with the contestants."

Disclaimer
Some may find certain scenes in these shows disturbing: Some ingredients, including Octopus, Eel, Lobster and others, are not killed prior to cooking by the chefs. Other ingredients may be subject to rough handling, or blood may be visible during preparation.


Whose Cuisine Reigns Supreme?

Battles, Organized by Theme Ingredient and Food Type
There were 309 battles in all including specials. 175 are currently available on YouTube. Unless otherwise indicated, each is dubbed in English. Most episodes are an 45 minutes to an hour long.

Dairy
* Milk (Iron Chef Chen vs. Masahiko Miyamoto) This is the first battle with a liquid ingredient.
* Yogurt (Iron Chef Chen vs. Junichi Ito) Watch for: Chen's "Oh Crap" expression when they announce the ingredient. Yogurt is not typically used in Chinese cuisine, so Chen doesn't have a lot of experience working with it. He spends the entire battle stressed out and irritated, while his challenger appears calm and relaxed. Guess who wins?

Fowl
* Chicken (Iron Chef Ishinabe vs. Jacques Borie)
* Duck (Iron Chef Sakai vs. Masatoshi Kimura)
* Duck II (Iron Chef Sakai vs. Mitsuo Hazama)
* Egg (Iron Chef Michiba vs. Zhijian Wang)
* Egg II (Iron Chef Nakamura vs. Toyoaki Suanuma)
* Egg, Chinese 100 Year-Old (Iron Chef Chen vs. Masao Takagi)
* Foie Gras (Iron Chef Nakamura vs. Kiyoshi Suzuki) Nakamura's debut
* Foie Gras II (Iron Chef Chen vs. Dominique Corby) There was an overtime battle afterward: Battle Asparagus
* Guinea Fowl (Iron Chef Sakai vs. Tomoji Ichikawa) Watch for: Chairman Kaga's completely serious description of the challenger, whom he praises with "excels at using Wedgewood."
* Ostrich (Iron Chef Nakamura vs. Gillian Hearst)
* Quail (Iron Chef Sakai vs. Seiya Kawasaki) Thing You'll Never Be Able To Unhear: Chairman Kaga's cooking direction: "Quail is the virgin. Duck is the mature woman." / Alternate Link: Not dubbed
* Turkey (Iron Chef Michiba vs. Hiroshi Furusho)

Fruit
* Apple (Iron Chef Sakai vs. Wayne Nishi) In Japanese, with subtitles. Video is poor quality. Watch for: Sakai is known for the unique way he peels apples.
* Apple and Chocolate (Iron Chef Sakai vs. Fuyuko Kondo)
* Banana and Chocolate (Iron Chef Kobe vs. Hironobu Tsujiguchi)
* Mango (Iron Chef Kobe vs. Yosei Watanabe)
* Pear and Chocolate (Iron Chef Sakai vs. Tadashi Yanagi)
* Pineapple (Iron Chef Chen vs. Shunji Morikawa)
* Plum, Pickled (Salt Cured -- Umeboshi) (Iron Chef Michiba vs. Kenji Kaji)
* Strawberry (Iron Chef Sakai vs. Masayo Waki)
* Tomato (Iron Chefs Michiba and Chen vs. the Cuomo Brothers) / Alternate Link Tag Team Match
* Tomato II (Iron Chef Kobe vs. Franco Canzoniere)
* Watermelon (Iron Chefs Kobe vs. Sakai. Billed as "IC Team Asia vs. IC Team Europe")

Meat
* Bacon (Iron Chef Sakai vs. Phillip Baton)
* Beef (Iron Chef Sakai vs. Mitsuru Saito)
* Beef, Mishima (Iron Chef Sakai vs. Kumiko Kobayashi)
* Escargot (Iron Chef Sakai vs. Bruno Menard) Watch for: This bit of insane snail cooking advice from Chairman Kaga: "Don't waste a drop of the lady's sweat."
* Lamb (Iron Chef Sakai vs. Mario Nakagawa)
* Lamb II (Iron Chef Sakai vs. Kazutaka Okabe)
* Lamb III (Iron Chef Nakamura vs. Keiji Azuma)
* Lamb IV (Iron Chef Sakai vs. Michael Husser)
* Liver (Iron Chef Chen vs. Lee Myong Suk)
* Oxtail (Iron Chef Sakai vs. Koji Hosogai)
* Pig, Black (Iron Chef Sakai vs. Isao Makio)
* Pig, Suckling (Iron Chef Chen vs. Spano Stervio) Watch for: The Iron Chefs are on a rare losing streak. Chairman Kaga boycotts the show. Commentator Yukio Hattori (Principal of Hattori Cooking College) fills in as temporary Chairman.
* Pork, Jinhua (Iron Chef Sakai vs. Shuzo Shimokawa)
* Pork Belly (Iron Chef Chen vs. Liang Shuqing) Overtime Battle: Konnyaku (More info on this ingredient: "What the heck is Konnyaku?"
* Spare Rib (Iron Chef Chen vs. Matsuo Nagamasa)
* Turkey (Iron Chef Morimoto vs. Jiro Ogue)
* Veal, Milk-Fed (Iron Chef Chen vs. Kyoko Kagata)

Seafood
* Abalone (Iron Chef Sakai vs. Tomatsu Takao)
* Abalone II (Iron Chef Morimoto vs. Takeshi Kajimoto)
* Abalone, Dried (Iron Chef Chen vs. Jinyi Gao)
* Anglerfish (Frogfish) (Iron Chef Michiba vs. Yasuo Kawada)
* Ara (Iron Chef Nakamura vs. Toshiro Kandegawa)
* Carp (Iron Chef Chen vs. Sozo Miyamoto)
* Carp II (Iron Chef Chen vs. Kaoru Miyazawa)
* Caviar (Iron Chef Nakamura vs. T. Houngues)
* Clams, Hamaguri (Iron Chef Sakai vs. Kunio Santo)
* Clams, Short Neck (Iron Chef Chen vs. Yoshiko Takemasa)
* Clams, Pen Shell (Iron Chef Chen vs. Takashi Shimamura)
* Cod (Iron Chef Sakai vs. Shigeo Yuasa)
* Cod II (Iron Chef Chen vs. Tatsujiro Yoshida)
* Cod Roe (Iron Chef Nakamura vs. Katsuko Nanao)
* Cod Roe (Iron Chef Morimoto vs. Yuuske Yamashita) There was an overtime battle afterward: Battle Scallion
* Crab, Blue (Iron Chef Michiba vs. Ming Xing Zeng)
* Crab, Blue (Watari) II (Iron Chef Kobe vs. Miyoko Sakai)
* Crab, Horsehair (Iron Chef Chen vs. Kiyotaka Ikegama) Challenger is a former sumo wrestler
* Crab, King (Taraba) (Iron Chef Morimoto vs. Tetsuji Iio)
* Crab, Matsuba (Iron Chef Michiba vs. Masao Suzuki)
* Crab, Shanghai (Iron Chef Chen vs. Toru Matsushima)
* Crayfish (Iron Chef Sakai vs. Phillipe Aubron)
* Cuttlefish (Iron Chef Chen vs. Ichio Gotoh
* Cuttlefish II (Iron Chef Morimoto vs. Akira Watanabe)
* Eel (Iron Chef Michiba vs. Yasahiko Yoshida)
* Eel, Giant (Iron Chef Morimoto vs. Hirokazu Handa)
* Eel, Pike (Hamo) (Iron Chef Sakai vs. Hirohisa Koyama)
* Eel, Pike (Hamo) II (Iron Chef Morimoto vs. Yoshimi Tanigawa)
* Lobster (Iron Chef Sakai vs. Ron Siegel)
* Lobster, Giant (Iron Chef Kobe vs. Makoto Osada) Watch for: Lobsters used are 30 years old.
* Lobster, "Homard" (Iron Chef Sakai vs. Tadaaki Shimizu)
* Lobster, Spiny (Iron Chef Chen vs. Xie Huaxian)
* Mackerel, Horse (Iron Chef Michiba vs. Tatsuo Umemiya)
* Mackerel, Spanish (Iron Chef Chen vs. Mitsuro Harada)
* Octopus (Iron Chef Sakai vs. Tadamichi Ota) Watch for: Any battle involving octopus typically has the chefs working with live animals. They don't kill them before cooking, which can be a bit disturbing to watch. Sakai, who hates working with what he calls "slimy" ingredients, accidentally dropped one. Announcers: "It's getting away!"
* Octopus II (Iron Chef Kobe vs. Hiromi Yoneda)
* Oyster (Iron Chef Sakai vs. Phillip Groult)
* Salmon (Iron Chef Nakamura vs. Bernard Le Prince) French Showdown. 90 minute show
* Salmon, Juvenile (Unisex) (Iron Chef Morimoto vs. Suichi Fujii)
* Salmon, Salted (Iron Chef Chen vs. Akihiko Inouye)
* Salmon (Iron Chef Sakai vs. Joel Beaulian) Watch for: If Joel wins, the Chairman will make him the new Iron Chef French
* Sardine (Iron Chef Chen vs. Yukihiro Noda)
* Sardine II (Iron Chef Chen vs. Hideki Marayuma)
* Saury (Iron Chef Michiba vs. Tsutomu Hiroi)
* Saury II (Iron Chef Sakai vs. Kazumi Nagayama)
* Scallop (Iron Chef Sakai vs. Osada Senji)
* Scorpion Fish (Iron Chef Chen vs. Hiroshi Yamanobe)
* Sea Bass (A tag team battle: Iron Chefs Michiba and Chen vs. Bruant and Furutaka)
* Sea Bass II (Iron Chef Morimoto vs. Yoshihide Koga) This was show #302 -- the final regular show filmed
* Sea Cucumber (Iron Chef Chen vs. Tsugio Fujiwara)
* Sea Urchin (Iron Chef Sakai vs. Yuji Wakiya) Announced as "Sea Urchin" but roe is the main ingredient.
* Sea Urchin II (Iron Chef Chen vs. Hisima Hirano)
* Sea Urchin III (Iron Chef Chen vs. Yuji Tateno) / Alternative Link
* Shark Fin (Iron Chef Michiba vs. Xu Peirong)
* Shark Fin (Iron Chef Chen vs. Mitsuo Suganuma)
* Shrimp (Prawn) (Iron Chef Chen vs. Takahi Saito)
* Shrimp (Prawn), Scampi (Iron Chef Chen vs. Masahiko Hagiwara)
* Sole (Iron Chef Sakai vs. Takaoyshi Kawai)
* Squid (Iron Chef Chen vs. Tetsuyoshi Shimazu)
* Squid, Supreme (Iron Chef Sakai vs. Kyonuri Miura) Watch for: Sakai's squeamish reactions to the ingredient: "Hey, how many times do I have to tell you guys, I don't like slimy things!" and "Oh, give me a break! I don't even like touching these! Ew!" as well as his surprised "They're alive!" when the Chairman announces it. One bites him.
* Stingray (Iron Chef Sakai vs. Yoshihide Koga)
* Sturgeon (Iron Chef Chen vs. Ryozo Asao)
* Sushi (Iron Chef Morimoto vs. Keiji Nakazawa) / Alternate Link
* Sweetfish (Ayu) (Iron Chef Michiba vs. Katsumi Hanato)
* Sweetfish (Ayu) II (Iron Chef Sakai vs. Haruyoshi Omino) / Alternate Link
* Sweetfish (Ayu) III (Iron Chef Morimoto vs. Kenichi Miyanaga)
* Tilefish (Iron Chef Michiba vs. Keisuke Tamano)
* Tuna (Iron Chef Michiba vs. Takashi Mera)
* Tuna II (Iron Chef Nakamura vs. Yukio Hattori) Hattori is Principal of Hattori Cooking College and a play-by-play commentator on the show.
* Tuna, Fatty (Iron Chef Kobe vs. Shinya Tasaki)

Vegetable
* Asparagus (Iron Chef Sakai vs. Toshihiro Komine)
* Asparagus II (Iron Chef Morimoto vs. Yasuhiko Habushi)
* Asparagus III (Iron Chef Chen vs. Dominique Corby) This is the overtime match for Battle Foie Gras
* Bamboo Shoots (Iron Chef Chen vs. Munetaka Takahashi)
* Bamboo Shoots II (Iron Chef Morimoto vs. Tetsuo Hagiwara)
* Bell Pepper (Iron Chef Michiba vs. Artur J. Rutter)
* Bell Pepper II (Iron Chef Kobe vs. Constantino Gemmoli)
* Bonito (Iron Chef Sakai vs. Hiromi Funatsu)
* Broccoli (Iron Chef Michiba vs. Etsuo Joh)
* Broccoli II (Iron Chef Kobe vs. Mario Frittoli)
* Cabbage (Iron Chef Chen vs. Hiromi Yamada)
* Cabbage, Chinese (Iron Chef Chen vs. Hisao Oidate)
* Cabbage, Chinese II (Iron Chef Sakai vs. Hiroshi Yamaoka)
* Cabbage, Shanghai (Iron Chef Chen vs. Hisao Yaginuma)
* Carrot (Iron Chef Chen vs. Kiyoshi Takahashi)
* Corn (Iron Chef Michiba vs. Keiji Nakazawa)
* Cucumber (Iron Chef Chen vs. Miyuki Igarashi)
* Daikon Radish (Iron Chef Sakai vs. Humaki Sato)
* Eggplant (Iron Chef Chen vs. Koichi Tabata)
* Eggplant II (Iron Chef Sakai vs. Shinichi Nagamatsu)
* Eggplant III (Iron Chef Kobe vs. Yashiro Sasajima)
* Konnyaku This is the Overtime Battle resulting from Battle Pork Belly (Iron Chef Chen vs. Liang Shuqing) (More info: "What the heck is Konnyaku?")
* Leek (Iron Chef Sakai vs. Jinichi Tateyama)
* Lettuce (Iron Chef Chen vs. Yewen He)
* Lotus Root (Iron Chef Sakai vs. Toshiro Kandagawa) Watch for: Kandegawa taunting Sakai. He was a frequent challenger. At one point Sakai snaps and tells Kandegawa to leave him alone, yelling: "You're always bothering people! Nobody likes you!
* Mushroom, Jumbo (Iron Chef Kobe vs. Shoji Yamaoka)
* Mushroom, Kinoko (Iron Chef Chen vs. Hideki Osako)
* Mushroom, Kinoko II (Iron Chef Chen vs. Daniella Ouzik) In Japanese, with Subtitles
* Mushroom, Maitake (Iron Chef Kobe vs. Ryuji Sasaoka)
* Mushroom: Matsutake (Iron Chef Sakai vs. Masamitsu Matsutake)
* Mushroom: Matsutake II (Iron Chef Michiba vs. Minoru Noda)
* Mushroom, Porcini (Iron Chef Morimoto vs. Marco Molinari)
* Mushroom, Shitake (Iron Chef Chen vs. Takaya Nakazawa)
* Natto (Iron Chef Michiba vs. Kuniyuki Ishikawa)
* Natto II (Iron Chef Morimoto vs. Tatsutoshi Kumamoto)
* Onion (Iron Chef Sakai vs. Masao Omiya) Watch for: This is the first challenger who works in a diner
* Potato (Iron Chef Chen vs. Katsuyo Kobayashi) Watch for: the scene where Kaga asks her to choose an Iron Chef
* Potato II (Iron Chef Michiba vs. Lin Kumbi) This is the first battle that [spoiler] ended in a tie. The overtime battle is Sweet Potato.
* Potato III (Iron Chef Chen vs. Kentaro)
* Pumpkin (Iron Chef Chen vs. Koji Kobayashi)
* Pumpkin (Iron Chef Kobe vs. Kensuke Sakai) Theme in honor of Halloween
* Scallion (Iron Chef Morimoto vs. Yuuske Yamashita) Overtime match after Battle Cod Roe ended in a tie.
* Soy Beans (Iron Chef Chen vs. Yoshie Urabe)
* Spinach (Iron Chef Chen vs. Katsuaki Mori)
* Sweet Potato (Iron Chef Michiba vs. Lin Kumbi) This is an overtime battle after Battle Potato ended in a tie.
* Taro (Iron Chef Michiba vs. Kunihiko Hashimoto)
* Tofu (Iron Chef Chen vs. Chiyo Cho)
* Tofu II (Iron Chef Morimoto vs. Takaji Yoshida)
* Truffle (Iron Chef Michiba vs.Yukio Hattori) / Alternate Link Hattori is Principal of Hattori Cooking College and a play-by-play commentator on the show.
* Turnip (Iron Chef Sakai vs. Koji Yamada) / Alternate Link
* Yam (Sweet Potato) (Iron Chef Sakai vs. Sotetsu Fujii)

Other
* Curry Powder (Iron Chef Sakai vs. Hidetoshi Ushimaru)
* Japanese Girl's Day Festival (Iron Chef Sakai vs. Motohito Kondo) Watch for: No theme ingredient. The chef who best articulates dishes for the Girl's Festival using ingredients available in kitchen stadium wins.
* Mochi (Rice Cake) (Iron Chef Chen vs. Toshiyuki Nakagawa)
* Noodles (Iron Chef Chen vs. Toshikatsu Nakagawa)
* Rice (Iron Chef Sakai vs. Sadaharu Nakajima)
* Rice II (Iron Chef Morimoto vs. Masayoshi Kimura)
* Swallow's Nest (Iron Chef Chen vs. Jinlun Li)
* Udon (Iron Chef Nakamura vs. Kenji Motai)
* Udon II (Iron Chef Sakai vs. Toru Komori)
* Wine (Iron Chef Sakai vs. Yuki Wakiya)

Additional Videos
* Iron Chef Nakamura's Retirement Retrospective. Was followed by Nakamura's retirement Battle Tuna II (listed above).
* 21st Century Battle Aired on 1/1/2001, more than a year after the end of the regular show. The show is 83 minutes long, and the opening includes 7 Iron Chefs ascending into Kitchen Stadium.
There were two battles here, one right after the other:
Battle 1: Iron Chef Sakai vs. Toshiro Kandegawa: Red Snapper
Battle 2: A rematch for Iron Chef Morimoto vs Bobby Flay: Lobster)
* Iron Chef World Cup: Japan vs. America. Aired on July 4th, 2013. In Japanese without subtitles, but includes English language interview clips with Hillary Clinton and Will Smith. American Chefs: Tony Maws, Eric Ziebold and Frank A. Ruta. Japanese Chefs: Yuji Wakiya, Yosuke Suga and Jun Kurogi.

Recipes
* Cooking Channel: Cook like an Iron Chef!
* Men's Health: Cook Fish Like Iron Chef Morimoto
* Iron Chef Fan Site: Reverse Engineered Recipes

Fan Sites
* Iron Chef Fans Wiki. Also see their main site

Music
Primarily, three movie soundtracks were used for the show's music:
* The most prevalent is Backdraft
* Glory
* Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story
Background info on what audio tracks were used and when, can be found at The Iron Chef Collection. If an episode has the music muted, it was probably removed for copyright reasons.

Spinoffs
* Iron Chef America: Food Network offers individual episodes on YouTube for $1.99. Some can be seen for free here and here.
* Iron Chef Australia (which only only ran for six episodes before cancellation). Not online. Small clip here.
* Iron Chef USA was an abortive attempt, hosted by William Shatner. Not online. Clip here.
* Iron Chef Israel is called "Krav Sakinim (קרב סכינים)," literally, "Knife Fight". Not online. A Hebrew-language commercial.
* Iron Chef Thailand: Clips and a few full episodes can be seen here. Videos are neither dubbed nor subtitled.
* Iron Chef UK: 25 episodes here, but not available in the US. Some episodes broken into parts here, but "Iron Chef UK: Irredeemably Awful" should probably be viewed first. The host is an even bigger ham than Kaga.
* Iron Chef Vietnam (Not dubbed or subtitled, but still mesmerizing; the chefs show a lot of flair.)

A revival for the Japanese show aired last year. Not online. Details: The Return of Iron Chef: Part I, Part II and it was quickly cancelled due to low ratings.

Alternate Links
* Currently 91 of the Iron Chef Japan episodes linked in this post have also been uploaded to this YouTube Channel

Dadá es arte sin zapatillas ni paralelos… en nuestra sabiduría sabemos que nuestras cabezas se convertirán en blandos cojines… sigue siendo una mierda pero ahora queremos cagar en muchos colores, adornar el zoológico del arte con todas las banderas de los consulados que do bong hibo aho hibo aho.

Acabáis de leer el manifiesto dadaísta, leído por primera vez en voz alta en Cabaret Voltaire, el club más surrealista de Suiza y lugar donde nació el dadaísmo. Y, sí, las últimas palabras ni siquira existen. Pero eso es bueno. O dicho de otro modo, si leemos textos de palabras complejas, extrañas, rebuscadas o cuya definición ignoramos desafiamos a nuestro cerebro mucho. Por esa razón, leer poesía (dejando a un lado consideraciones estéticas) entrena mejor nuestro cerebro que leer prosa.

Es al menos lo que sugiere un experimento consistente en monitorizar la actividad cerebral de un grupo de voluntarios mientras leían una serie de libros, que ha sido llevado a cabo por un equipo de científicos, psicólogos y académicos de la lengua de la Universidad de Liverpool.

El estudio también apunta que los versos poéticos incrementan la actividad en el hemisferio derecho del cerebro, el área que se encarga de la memoria autobiográfica, lo que permite reflexionar sobre experiencias propias y enriquecerlas a la luz de lo leído, tal y como explica Philip Davis, profesor de filología inglesa y miembro del equipo de investigación:

La poesía no es solo una cuestión de estilo. Se trata también de profundas interpretaciones de la experiencia que añaden lo emocional y lo biográfico a lo cognitivo.

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La noticia Leer poesía entrena mejor tu cerebro que leer prosa fue publicada originalmente en Xatakaciencia por Sergio Parra.

Why is pop music so sad? A study (PDF) published in the Journal of Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts tracked the mood of pop songs over five decades of Billboard charts, and it confirms that pop has changed in substantial ways. Over the years, popular recordings became longer in duration and the proportion of female artists increased. There was also an increase in the use of minor mode and a decrease in average tempo, confirming that popular music became more sad-sounding over time. (MP3 podcast)

Researchers Glenn Schellenberg and Christian von Scheve point to the rise of consumerism and individualism, which produces a demand for more choice; increasing cultural and societal ambiguity (such as the erosion of traditional gender roles); as well as the desire among pop consumers to demonstrate distinctiveness and sophistication in their taste.
Lady Gaga is highlighted as rare in her ability to produce up-tempo major-mode recordings, such as 'Born This Way' and 'Edge of Glory' that sound fresh while recalling or quoting popular music from an earlier time.

The findings complement an analysis of pop lyrics (PDF) from 1980-2007

5 Stupid Habits You Develop Growing Up in a Broken Home John Cheese writes for Cracked on the long-term effects of growing up in emotional neglect. Previous Cheese discussion on MeFi: The 5 Stupidest Habits You Develop Growing Up Poor. Both lists make me wince in recognition.

By J. Wisniewski  Published: December 23rd, 2013  If you share some uplifting link with somebody on Facebook -- some video of an act of human kindness captured on camera, or this dolphin masturbating with the aid of its little fish friend -- the response is usually the same. "Nice to see there are s

 
“Libertarian feminist” Camille Paglia is getting press again, and every time Camille Paglia gets press, feminists are obliged to immediately declare their respective camps. There’s a camp that’s perpetually incensed with Paglia, a (dwindling) camp cheering her on, and then there’s my camp—the camp of feminists who hope that if we ignore her, she will simply go away.

To keep a very long story short, Camille Paglia just doesn’t really like women, preferring to decry her youngers, whilst simultaneously dismissing her foremothers. In fact, the only people she seems to really respect are men. Check out his charming excerpt from her latest essay in TIME, some lameass troll-bait titled, “It’s a Man’s World and it Always Will Be.”

Every day along the Delaware River in Philadelphia, one can watch the passage of vast oil tankers and towering cargo ships arriving from all over the world. These stately colossi are loaded, steered and off-loaded by men. The modern economy, with its vast production and distribution network, is a male epic, in which women have found a productive role — but women were not its author. Surely, modern women are strong enough now to give credit where credit is due!

If I may dust off an old chestnut, “Cool story, bro.”  I’m sure those noble icons of manly labor are all really pleased that some bullshit academic “feminist” wrote them a weird love letter in TIME. And the prose is downright Randian in its reverence.

Yes, as far as Paglia is concerned, no one else’s feminism is quite smart enough for her—a point which she’ll readily make to you with 9,000 words on post-structuralism and a libertarian tirade. Unfortunately, I work on the Internet, which prevents me from totally ignoring her, so maybe reminding everyone how terrible she is would make me feel better? Here’s a 1993 interview with Paglia where she acts like a sputtering, defensive fool when confronted with video evidence that her formal idol, Susan Sontag, had never even heard of her.

There’s something sickeningly gratifying about seeing such an egotistical narcissist so miffed. And though I often find Susan Sontag’s work pretentious and politically unsound, the record of this moment alone is enough for me to want to defend her entire career. I have a sneaking suspicion that Sontag was probably in the “Let’s ignore her and maybe she’ll go away” camp. (Here’s Paglia’s meltdown.)
 

 
It seems unlikely that anyone even slightly familiar with American punk would need an introduction to the legendary iconoclast Jello Biafra. From his days as the brains, conscience and leader of the notorious and incendiary leftist punks Dead Kennedys, to his lengthystringofsuperbcollaborativealbums, to his politically charged spoken word performances, to his most recent work with The Guantanamo School of Medicine, Biafra (born Eric Boucher) has left a bigger stain on American counterculture than most. Unrepentantly opinionated (and to my reckoning, usually dead-on correct), Biafra can typically be heard issuing proclamations in a strident cadence that rings of Fred Schneider trying to imitate Mark E. Smith. Which was why it was actually quite refreshing to see this interview in Denver’s alt-weekly WestWord, wherein Biafra’s focus isn’t on politics, but rather a remembrance of his youth as a new initiate into the punk scene in his hometown of Boulder, CO. His journey to venerated counterculture elder statesman began with a stint as a hanger-on and later roadie for a The Ravers - a little-remembered band that later found much wider recognition under the name The Nails - which led to his ultimate Saul-on-the-road-to-Damascus moment: seeing the Ramones in concert.

As far as I know, [The Ravers were] Colorado’s first punk band and one of the very first anywhere. It was more rooted in ‘60s garage than it was in Ramones or Sex Pistols and still an important part of my life and many other people’s. I’d been reading Marc Campbell’s reviews in the Colorado Daily, and he was much more brash and up front about what he liked and didn’t like.

So he was memorable instantly. Later, I found out he was the singer in the Ravers. They kind of centered around the old basement location on Broadway of Trade A Tape and Records in Boulder where I got a lot of my vinyl. They rehearsed in a back room and Rick Scott, one of the clerks there, was their manager.

Word got around, probably through Rick, that the Ramones were gonna come through Denver and play at Ebbets Field, opening for a major-label attemped flavor-of-the-month called Nite City. Ironically, it had to have Ray Manzarek and a pre-Blondie Nigel Harrison in it, among other people. It was an attempt at an instant FM rock hit, and the opening band was the Ramones.

So the handful of us who kind of knew who the Ramones were in the front row. Ebbets Field was a small, intimate place where everyone was expected to sit down. That’s what people did at concerts; everybody was supposed to sit down. Bill Graham would throw you out for dancing in San Francisco, and so would Barry Fey and Feyline security.

You undoubtedly know Rocky Mountain Low; Joseph Pope was one of the people in the front row with me. At the time, I didn’t really take the Ramones that seriously. I knew they rocked, but I would sit around playing the Ramones with my friends, and we would giggle at the lack of guitar solos and these boneheaded lyrics like “beat on the brat with a baseball bat” and “now I wanna sniff some glue.”

It had an impact enough to go down and see them. And out come these four, kinda degenerate looking guys in leather jackets—which is something you didn’t see very often then. One chord on Jonny’s guitar, and we knew it was going to be a louder than anyone of us were prepared for. We braced ourselves and instead of being goofy, the Ramones were one of the most powerful experiences of my entire life.

We were three feet from the stage and forced to sit down, of course. Not only were they really, really good, but half the fun was turning around and watching the Ebbets Field, country-rock glitterati, the guys with the neatly trimmed beards, Kenny Loggins-feathered hair and corduroy jackets, with patches on the elbows, as well as the cocaine cowboys and their women, with their 1920s suits with flowers, because that’s what Joni Mitchell was wearing at the time—they looked horrified. They had nowhere to go. Because Ebbets Field was so small, you couldn’t go hang out in the lobby because there wasn’t one. They just had to endure the Ramones.

It never would have occurred to me to try to go back stage and talk to the band. I didn’t know you could talk to rock bands. I was a wide-eyed teenager used to going to see arena rock at the Denver Coliseum or McNichols. At any rate, Joseph came back at one point and said, “Oh yeah, I was just back talking to The Ramones.” “What?! You can talk to the Ramones?”

That was the punk rock thing—we’re all from the same place. And that was the beauty of the live shows, too—my god, they’re so powerful, they’re so simple, anyone could do this. Shit, I could do this. Maybe I should. And that’s how it affected a lot of people in the room. The Ramones stayed an extra night and Ebbets Field let them headline, and the Ravers were going to open the show. Luckily, The Ravers needed what was then called “roadies.” So I me, Joe, Sam Spinner, and, I think, John Trujillo, were anointed “the roadies” on the spot.

Suddenly I thought, “All you people who thought I was a loser in school, now I’m somebody. I’m a roadie for the Ravers!” That meant many good times at other Ravers shows like playing with the Nerves and the big one playing on the top floor of the ex-elementary school at 9th and Arapahoe. Which was Driver which became The Nightflames and the Front.

By the way, if you’re curious about that Ray Manzarek/Nigel Harrison band Biafra mentions, I don’t recommend you trouble yourself with finding it, it’s horrible, horrible stuff.

Regular readers of this blog may have recognized that the Marc Campbell mentioned in the interview is Dangerous Minds’ own. I actually didn’t - DM‘s poo-bah Richard Metzger pointed it out to me. This, young aspiring writers, is why we have editors. Marc had this to add to Jello’s reminiscences:

The Ramones were traveling with a woman (Johnny’s girlfriend I think). She was dressed in fish nets and leather mini-skirt and reading a Nazi torture porn novel something like “Ilsa, She Wolf Of The SS.” Totally silent. Dee Dee kept talking about how scary it was flying so close to the Rocky Mountains. An animated goofball full of manic energy. Joey, Johnny and Tommy didn’t talk much. They were intimidating. All theater, seamless and perfect.

The Ramones’ show at Ebbet’s Field was a religious experience for me. Perhaps the most important rock show of my life in that it solidly re-connected me to what I loved about the music and made me want to continue playing it. Months later, The Ravers were on their way to Manhattan and CBGB and Max’s. Eric helped load up the van and saw us off. He was too young to make the trip with us, or at least his parents thought so. I think I remember him waving bye as we sped toward our destiny. But that may be the movie version. Jello will have to correct me if I’m wrong.

For a look at what that Colorado kid evolved into, enjoy “Sing Along with the Dead Kennedys,” a bonus feature from the Dead Kennedys - The Early Years Live DVD.
 

Charles Bukowski was a drunk. Not just a drunk, but the drunk. Nearly two decades after his death, he remains the patron saint of drunks. That being the case, naming a bar after him makes sense. It's been done, many times, before: New York City, Glasgow, Boston and Amsterdam all possess watering hole homages to the alpha male author. Santa Monica's week-old Barkowski can now be added to that list.

The deification of Bukowski, and other tortured, inebriated artists of his ilk, is a task best undertaken by those who have not experienced actual suffering. There is no better place to find said demographic than Santa Monica, California, a bourgeoisie beachside burg more well-known for its outdoor shopping mall than its self-destructive poet population. According to Barkowski's website, its namesake's "writing was influenced by the social, cultural and economic ambience of his home city of Los Angeles." Santa Monica is not Los Angeles. Los Angeles, or at least Bukowski's Los Angeles, is where you go when you want to drink $3 draft beers surrounded by human detritus. Santa Monica, however, is where you go when you want to pay $9 for a poorly poured, half-filled glass of Chimay. Barkowski sells poorly poured, half-filled $9 glasses of Chimay.

Barkowski's interior is essentially the same as that of its predecessor, the Air Conditioned Lounge; nothing has been done to alter its nondescriptly modern black and red color scheme and padded leather walls. Enormous glamour shots of Buk' drinking and gazing into the distance, alongside framed printouts of trite quotes about women and incarceration, are the only things that differentiate the new bar from the old. In one photo, he's shown cradling a Schlitz tall boy; in the interest of synergy, Schlitz tall boys are available at the bar. For $7. If Schlitzes were $7 in Bukowski's day, he wouldn't have been able to afford a drinking problem, and Barkowski would have a decidedly different theme ("Papa y Beer Hemingway's," perhaps?). When it came to preserving the authenticity of the Bukowski theme, $7 Schlitzes and the "A" health rating sign hanging above the bar were but two of a myriad inaccuracies.

The cheapest beer available, America's least-favorite piss-like macrobrew Milwaukee's Best, was $4; most were priced in the $6 to $7 range. The "Good Eats" section of the menu advertised "nuked" White Castle sliders for $3. Below, an unrelated quote from Bukowski was written in chalk: “What a woman wants is a reaction. What a man wants is a woman.” In fairness to the bar, however, any quote of his would have been unrelated, as I'm fairly certain the man never wrote any prose about overpriced microwaved sliders. Barkowski lacks a liquor license; the $7 cocktails on the menu get their kick from Soju, a hangover-inducing Korean grain alcohol. I decided, as Bukowski once wrote, to "stay with the beer." After all, "beer is continuous blood. a continuous lover.”  The one lover my thriftiness allowed me to consume, a $5 Blue Moon, was served with a wedge of orange on its rim. The visual of Bukowski consuming fruit, or any kind of food for that matter, with his beer tickled me.

It was 8 PM on a Friday, the bar's first day of business. A smattering of middle-aged white men, many alone, stared at their iPhones. Instead of slaving over the Great American Novel, they appeared to be penning the Great American Status Update. Slowly, the folks you assume would patronize a Bukowski-themed bar trickled in: a man-child wearing a scarf and bandaged knuckles, no doubt injured in a moment of "passion"; a group of young dweebs, who drank their beers in confused, awkward silence; a filthy-mouthed man draped in Dodgers paraphernalia. 

Behind me, two bros animatedly spoke; dialogue like "It's gonna be a great year!" implied they had a stake in this operation. Bro #1, with his manicured beard and bun, sipped an aforementioned $7 Schlitz tall boy. Bro #2, with slicked black hair and an elbow-patched blazer, drank a glass of red wine. Bro #1 sadly lamented to Bro #2, "He was supposed to be a graphics ninja." Yeah. They were definitely the owners.

Time passed slowly, as the bar wasn't exactly "jumpin." The forty minute mark felt like four hours. I decided to wait it out an hour; this goal, while meager, was still difficult to achieve because I couldn't afford to get drunk. Then, all at once, it happened. A couple of gen-u-ine degenerates, the kind that'd make Ol' Bukowski puke with pride, stumbled in.

The men, both wearing polo shirts, had been kicked out of another bar. One, the strong, silent type, said little. His companion, however, did enough talking for the both of them. Gregarious to a fault, he put his arms around everyone, up to and including a depressed middle aged man who couldn't stop gazing at his own reflection in an enormous mirror above the bar, presumably wondering what went wrong. He eventually approached the beard-o owner bros. Shaking an enormous wad of cash, he slurred, "Those people don't even know what they were kicking out." The bros, who appeared genuinely uncomfortable by this level of authenticity, met his enthusiasm with icy terseness. He was the only insufferable drunk in a shrine to one of history's greatest insufferable drunks, and his presence was not appreciated. Granted, he looked more like a stereo salesmen than a tortured artist, but still. 

The staff had no idea how to handle the drunk, who I monikered "Fistful of Dollars." His genuine intoxication, and the Bukowski-level behavior it generated, made them uncomfortable. As he belligerently wandered around the bar, alternating between hugging and talking at patrons, the bartender—gussied up in generic pinup horseshit (impeccable hair, a flower behind her ear; the whole nine yards)—helplessly stood next to the cash register and tried to stay inconspicuous. The manager, to his credit, silently slipped between Fistful of Dollars and me when it looked like I was going to be his next conversational victim.

Despite the manager's best efforts, Fistful of Dollars did approach me on my way out. He drunkenly slurred his way through a shambolic mess of a pick-up attempt, caressing my arm for emphasis as everyone employed by the bar looked on horrified yet did nothing. After a while, his girlfriend showed up. "Your boyfriend is intoxicated," I told her. "I know," she sighed, looking put upon. Her resignation was palpable. A long-suffering woman and a rich drunk? Barkowski had found its perfect patrons. If only the drunk wasn't so... y'know... drunk.

I whipped out the ol' Ouija board once I got home, and asked Buk' for his take on the establishment that bore his name. This amazing poetry flowed through my fingers. He was always such an artist!

i would rather fuck

a big pussied woman

clutch at her big pussied body in the hot cool of the dark night

than pay seven dollars

for a shit cunt schlitz can of piss fuck

@bornferal

Christmas is that special time of year where everyone is dragged kicking and screaming into the black, cold consumer void of big box retailers, novelty outdoor shopping complexes, and traditional American malls. In short, it's a fucking nightmare. For some, that nightmare never ends, so we've compiled photos of some of the saddest shoppers around from the miserable_men Instagram account to celebrate the unsung heroes of capitalist ennui.

No concello de Pantón, hai que emprender a caída de rexas ladeiras para chegar ás parroquias que penduran sobre o río. Paisaxes fantásticas e marabillosas e parroquias de orixe monástica, case eremita, que foron construíndo o seu hábitat en socalcos sombreados de frutais, de cereixeiras, mazás e vides. Un dos secretos mellor gardados de Pantón é San Vicenzo de Pombeiro, unha enorme igrexa perdidiña nestes socalcos, que foi vello mosteiro xa entrado en decadencia no século XV. Aquí escravos mouros cuidaron as vides da abadía, e hoxe cultívase aquí un dos mellores brancos -si, brancos- da Ribeira Sacra. Como queira que o mosteiro viviu no século XV, como dicía, certo ambiente de relaxación, grazas a el debémoslle a Virxe eu creo que máis erótica do occidente europeo -ensinaréivola outro día-, e esta interesantísima e un pouquiño iconoclasta Santa Cea da que imos falar e un completo ciclo adicional de pinturas, todas ordeadas polo abade Vasco en 1462.

Aí enriba vedes a Última Cea. Está representando o momento no que Xoán, deitado no peito de Cristo, lle pregunta quen traizoará. E Cristo dálle o pan mollado a Xudas, a quen vemos de costas, sen nimbo, e coa bolsa das moedas colgando da espalda. Os máis atentos poderán ver como un diminuto diablo negro entra na boca do Xudas neste momento. Pero eu creo que a Última Cea de Pombeiro dános moitos máis datos de como era un pequeno banquete en Galicia a iso de mediados do XV.

En primeiro lugar, podemos observar no servizo da mesa un montón de navallas que lembran moitísimo as de Taramundi. Nestes momentos, en Galicia non existen os garfos, e as navallas fan a función de ferramenta multiusos. Varias das personaxes, ademáis, permiten ver que a navalla emprégase, sobre todo, para sacar talladas de pan. Ante a ausencia de pratos individuais, é previsible que este pan faga as veces de prato sobre o que pousar o peixe. Unha especie de pratos adicionais parecen ter pequenas talladas de algún tipo de alimento (se cadra o propio peixe?) depositado xa en talladiñas sobre el. Tamén podería ser outro tipo de alimento como queixo, xa cortado.

E logo está o peixe, intrigantemente servido en bandexas. Ao meu ver, podería tratarse de peixe de río: lucios. Boten unha comparación a esta imaxe e xa me din:

Aínda que ollos máis expertos ao mellor poden opinar que se trata doutro peixe. Nos comentarios seguimos o debate! En todo caso, chama a atención que o peixe non parece “cociñado”. Non está aberto, presérvase a cabeza, etc. Se cadra sexa un peixe cociñado directamente ao forno. Tampouco hai ningún tipo de guarnición.

Pero un dos elementos máis intrigantes deste banquete está nas bebidas. Non é un asunto menor, xa que ten unha carga relixiosa moi importante. Aquí, na Última Cea, é onde se institúe o viño coma o “sangue de Cristo”. Un significativo número de apóstoles empregan unha sorte de vasos moi sinxelos, con apenas unha decoración de reborde na zona superior. Sen embargo, hai máis recipientes nesa mesa. En primeiro lugar, uns instrigantes como “cálices”, que non manipula ningún apóstolo, e que se cadra non sexan tanto receptores de líquidos como contedores dalgún tipo de salsa ou especies. Seguro que algún especialista sabe mellor de que se trata.

Agora ben, o máis intrigante e fascinante da pintura é a misteriosa presenza de dúas tankard, as dúas xerras de cervexa, en primeiro plano. Eu non sei se as tankard tamén se empregaban para o servizo de viño, pero ese elemento da tapa superior as identifica con moitísima claridade. De feito, o apóstolo que lle está dando un bo repaso á xerra á dereita ten a tapa levantada de xeito inequívoco. Na medida en que o viño é un asunto teolóxico, a presenza aquí da cervexa non deixa de ser unha herexía bastante espectacular. Podían conter viño ou…O especialmente interesante de Pombeiro, como digo, é o ambiente de relaxación e disipación de costumes que se denunciarán neste século para este remoto cenobio, e que posiblemente inflúa en que apareza noutra pintura, o máis fermoso corpo sensual de muller da Galicia do momento que preservamos. Así paréceo ter claro, nesta última instancia, Alicia P. Suárez-Ferrín, a historiadora da arte que máis ten traballado estas pinturas e da que podedes ler un estudo aquí.

Ela non ten advertido no texto que algúns dos apóstoles parecen ser máis de cervexa que en viño -como acontece ata nas mellores familias- pero se cadra a mensaxe da última cea de Pombeiro nos estea contando unha anécdota habitual das ceas cotiás desta fermosa e algo licenciosa abadía luguesa.

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Norte de Uganda, año 2002. Un país de una belleza asombrosa en una época de brutalidad inconcebible. Escondido profundamente en las montañas, lejos de miradas occidentales, un enajenado extremista cristiano rebelde y su ejército de niños a los que ha lavado el cerebro aterrorizan a sus compatriotas y se enfrentan en una guerra de guerrillas contra las tropas gubernamentales.

En este despropósito desembarca el Dr. Moses Lwanga. Cuando su familia huyó del régimen de Amin hacia Estados Unidos tan solo tenía siete años y Lwanga regresa después de haber estudiado en las mejores universidades, con una hermosa esposa ugandesa y una filosofía tajantemente pacifista. La personificación del sueño americano regresa para ayudar a sanar la pesadilla que azota el norte de Uganda.

Pero desde lo más profundo del alma de este sanador brota misteriosamente una imparable máquina de matar, un soldado desconocido. Y cuando emprende su particular guerra contra los hombres, y los niños, que han convertido las áreas rurales de Uganda en una zona de guerra, no hay forma de prever quién quedará atrapado en el fuego cruzado.


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The Myers-Briggs type indicator is one of the most popular personality tests. It divides people in 16 types based on four preferences, each noted by a different letter: I (introverted) or E (extroverted), S (detailed thinking) or N (big picture thinking), T (logical) vs. F (relational decision making), and J (preference for planning) or P (preference for spontaneity). It’s fairly easy to guess the personality type of people you know well, and while it’s not the end all, be all of their personality, it does put their behavior into perspective–as you know a bit about what they value and how they like to make decisions. If you don’t know your own type, here’s a quick test.

With a bit of thinking about the personalities of people in your life, you can find a few gift suggestions for their perfect gift listed below. Giving someone something that they are suited to like, or that is based on their personal interests ensures the gift will be one of the most meaningful they receive this holiday.

ISTJ

Identify one: That quiet, dependable, rational accountant you know.
Famous examples: Jamie Hyneman (host of Mythbusters), Gordon Ramsey
What to give them: A practical gift like a tool set or a detail oriented fun project like a difficult puzzle or a model building kit. The more millennial version of these options may be a home brewing kit for a beer loving ISTJ, or the famous make-up artist Kevyn Aucoin’s in-depth make-up tutorial book, Making Faces, and a quality brush set.

ISFJ

Identify one: A rule-observing, generous, quiet and loyal person. The one that always volunteers to pick you up from the airport or help you fix a leaky sink.
Famous examples: Bruce Jenner, Kate Middleton
What to give them: A classy gift that will last forever, or something that can help this person help others. A gift like Carla Hall’s Cooking With Love, will bring your friend pleasure in mastering a new skill, and also in providing comfort (food) to others. A couples massage is a fantastic idea for an ISFJ partner, because they’ll value knowing you’re sharing the experience with them.

INFJ

Identify one: Your serious friend that has a graduate degree in something like social work or did Teach For America.
Famous examples: Simone de Beauvoir, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Noam Chomsky
What to give them: Something meaningful and smart, like a leather bound copy of Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet, a subscription to The New Yorker, or an autobiography of someone they admire, like Hillary Clinton.

INTJ

Identify one: Your smart and interesting friend who prefers to be alone, reflecting on or researching who-knows-what so that next time they venture out into a social situation they can make sure you acknowledge how smart, interesting, and intellectually untouchable they are.
Famous examples: Ayn Rand, Mark Zuckerberg, Christopher Hitchens
What to give them: Since they already know everything there is to know about everything, find something that synthesizes one everything times another. A book on the philosophical underpinnings of important 90s-era rap lyrics or The Rosetta Stone discs for an eastern European language they started to learn while overhearing their seatmates’ conversation on an 8-hour flight back from Morrocco. Whatever you decide on, it’s best to flatter an INTJ with an intelligent or somewhat esoteric gift that compliments their intellectual ability and taste.

ISTP

Identify one: Your friendly neighborhood auto mechanic. ISTP’s like to understand how things work.
Famous examples: Steve Jobs, Stanley Kubrick
What to give them: ISTPs are crafts people–they likely already have a known hobby like scrapbooking or building computers. If you can given them something around their hobby–go for it. If you don’t known what they’re interested in, their desire to learn how things are put together make The Mythbusters Game a great fit. They’ll also love a guide to something they already own, like their motorcycle or a guide to photo editing.

ISFP

Identify one: The laid back artisanal friend who you imagine could never hurt a fly.
Famous examples: Michael Jackson, Paul McCartney, Sofia Coppola
What to give them: An acoustic guitar, a certificate for a pottery making class, or some other guide that allows them to explore their creativity.

INFP

Identify one: This person can best be described as your brilliant, nerdy-in-the-coolest-way but super-sensitive friend. They have a quick answer for everything but are also quick to take what you say personally, but only because they feel so much.
Famous examples: Kierkegaard, J.K. Rowling, Christopher Robin (from Winnie The Pooh)
Gift idea: Something that relates to their very specific, quirky interests. If you aren’t sure what it is, buy them the latest piece of technology and let them find a way to meld it into their unique interests (unlike their counterpart the ENFP, they value a iPad as an instrument through which to express their intuition just as much as a dream catcher.) Any gift that feels personal to their interest, or even one that doesn’t but includes a personal note, will make them feel special.

INTP

Identify one: The person who cares infinitely more about thinking an ideas than talking with people. You probably have no idea what they are talking about half of the time, in part for lack of social skills and in part because they are just that much more intellectual than you. You respect them, even if you don’t understand them.
Famous examples: Albert Einstein, Richard Dawkins, Jimmy Wales
Gift idea: Rubik’s Cube, conspiracy theory book, or when in doubt, any of those complex brain-teasing puzzles from Sharper Image.

ESTP

Identify one: They are the center of attention, often found regaling the group with hilarious (and often controversial) stories while the typically more introverted, neurotic crowd listens in jealous awe.
Famous examples: Donald Trump, Bret Easton Ellis
Gift idea: Something that will make them feel confident in social situations like a nice watch, cufflinks, or piece of jewelry. A powerful person’s biography. A set of nice wine glasses or champagne flutes for their home.

ESFP

Identify one: In the nicest, most sincere way possible, they remind you of a black lab.
Famous examples: Hugh Hefner, Richard Branson
Gift idea: A ping pong table. Croquet lessons. Polo lessons. Racquetball lessons. They already know the other sports, but when in doubt, throw ‘em a ball.

ENFP

Identify one: Your most free-spirited friend who often bounces from worldview to worldview in their curious and endless attempt to explore all the ways to think about things. They’ve told you at some point about the person they think they were in their past life.
Famous examples: Hunter S. Thompson, Oscar Wilde, Anais Nin
Gift idea: The novel, Enlightenment for Idiots. Something related to their ideology du jour, bonus points if it has a heightened sense of mystery, intrigue, or adventure. A travel book to India, a copy of The Screwtape Letters, a set of tarot cards, a handmade journal with lock and key.

ENTP

Identify one: The quintessential hipster type. Need I say more? You’re reading Thought Catalog after all.
Famous examples: Machiavelli, Barack Obama,
Gift idea: Anything that makes them seem in-the-know ahead of time. Concert tickets to an obscure music festival. The first batch of beer brewed from a local, sustainable strain of blueberries. A cookbook for a type of western Nepalese cuisine which involves ingredients you have to buy on Amazon. Classes for a type of yoga so bizarre it’s like having sex with yourself. Whitewater rafting. Turtlenecks. The point here is that you have to present it as “some crazy thing you read about in the New York Times” and let them think they invented it.

ESTJ

Identify one: The most serious, deliberate person you know, who has a 10-year plan delineated in a trapper keeper and a daily budget kept down to the dime.
Famous examples: Martha Stewart, Ivanka Trump
Gift idea: A gift card or anything with a gift receipt. They already know what they want and your best attempts to give it aren’t going to ever match up to their extremely particular expectations. No offense, they like it better that way. If you want to go out on a limb, get them something useful for their ambitions, like an iPhone 5, an expensive pen, or an eReader for business trips.

ESFJ

Identify one: Everyone’s favorite hostess. They love to make other people happy, and thrive when you show your gratitude for their social prowess.
Famous examples: Andy Rooney, Sarah Palin
Gift idea: An apron. For a lady, something vintage or vintage-inspired (hint: if you want her to like you, buy it at Anthropologie). For a man, it should be humorous, like a full-frontal depiction of the Statue of David or some kind of snarky slogan like “Keep Your Hands Off My Buns!”

ENFJ

Identify one: Your super-accommodating friend whose secret social insecurity you’re well versed in.
Famous examples: Ronald Reagan, Reese Witherspoon, Dr. Drew
Gift idea: Anything customized. From a piece of jewelry to a specialty tea blend, if you can prove you actually memorized what their personal preferences were while all they were trying to do was meet your needs, they’ll be endlessly grateful. Try going to a food coop and pick up a few essential oils you select especially for their needs.

ENTJ

Identify one: The self-appointed executive of your family or social group.
Famous examples: Margaret Thatcher, Rahm Emanuel
Gift idea: An axe. Seriously. Give them a real power tool or a decorative reminder of the power they exude from their strong personality.

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• Pensamento 1: Manda carallo que traian esto dos "Food Trucks" a México DF, cando a cidade é a maior concentración imaxinable de postos, tenderetes, coches, motos, bicicletas de comida na rúa. Bueno, evidentemente isto pretende ser algo diferente ós tacos, tortas e quesadillas que venden nas rúas, e cunha clientela e unhas pretensións diferentes. Para que andar dando voltas ó termo: para modernos e xente bien.
• Pensamento 2: Por outro lado, se hai algún sitio do mundo onde presta o concepto dos "Food Trucks" ven sendo o Distrito Federal: parecese moitísimo urbanísticamente a Los Angeles, con bóas rúas, sitios onde aparcar, e sobre todo onde a xente xúntase en lugares ben aislados. O restaurante "estático" ten o problema que non é capaz de apandar co ritmo no que as modas e as cousas mutan dentro do DF.

E pasei por alí a ver que había.

O choio que montaran era bastante curioso. Nun sitio que parecía un taller (enorme) de camións abandonado, aparcaran algúns dos food trucks. Así ca avantaxe que non ía chover por riba dos visitantes podías visititar un a ún algúns dos Food Trucks que estaban a funcionar actualmente no DF.

Había, na mas pura onda Californiana, moitos de comida exótica. Isto é de comida non Mexicana. Entendo que os mexicanos teñan fame de probar outras cousas, pero eu, que veño de fora, escollín os que se centraban en comida autóctona (todos con toques modernos).

Crazy Fish

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Esta furgoneta (que tiña uns empregados moi simpáticos coma podedes ver na foto) estaba especializada en cocina baja-californiana. Este tipo de cociña estaba moi, moi de moda (en ambientes asi pijoteros). Eu ainda non teño moi claro en que consiste este tipo de cociña: ¿a cociña tradicional do estado de Baja California? ¿É coma a cociña de Durango? ¿Cociña norteña? Logo polo que fun vendo e polo que fun probando quedo ca idea que a cocina baja, é a cociña mexicana para gringos.


Variedade infinitina de salsas. En México os restaurantes e sitios onde se serve peixe e marisco teñen sempre coma pouco 5 tipos de salsa.


Pois tomei un "taco crazy fish", que era un cacho de peixe branco rebozado cunha salsa con maionesa e vexetais cortados. Non estaba mal, pero claro, vaia decepción que só fose algo rebozado. Non ten moita historia.

Para acompañar, auga de coco, que sí estaba ben bóa.

Bueno Bonito Bistrot

Este xa me parecía máis interesante, o concepto destes rapaces era cociña tradicional mexicana, con ingredientes o máis naturais posibles, pero con moita calidade (e prezos non moi esaxerados).

 Por exemplo coma podedes ver, ofrecían 'antojitos de bichos' que non é un xogo de palabras: eran apertivos con insectos. Ou por exemplo quesadillas de longaniza de Mérida (en Yucatán, un embutido moi de moda e que vin en cartas de moitos menús).

Eu repetín... primeiro un tamal de chipilín, que non confundir co chapulin: o chapulín é un insecto, e o chipilín é unha planta. Este era un tamal estilo Oaxaqueño: moi fino. Estaba rico, e sobre todo eu tiña moitas ganas de tomar tamales.

Primario

O presidente da Xunta improvisou un discurso na Gala dos 80 anos de Radio Galicia na que destaca que "colombianos, mexicanos ou venezolanos" están de plena actualidade en Galicia, que o presidente de Finsa case sofre un coma etílico na súa época de estudante ou que el votou ao PSOE en 1982, cando por AP se presentara Manuel Fraga. Audio do discurso, no interior.

Declararon ante el juez y siguen encausados después de aprobar que el Concello pagara el abogado a un concejal imputado en la Pokémon

• Los encausados se escudan en informes técnicos favorables

«San Francisco e o belén» se expone en tres sedes eclesiales de la ciudad

Raxoi procederá al visionado de las cámaras si la figura no es devuelta

A figura do belén que fora secuestrada da praza do Obradoiro compostelá aparece fronte a sede da Secretaría Xeral de Emigración cunha pancarta contra as medidas do Goberno contra a inmigración no valado.

Lúa de San Bieito

Las calles República do Salvador y Alfredo Brañas estuvieron cortadas al tráfico hasta las seis de la tarde