Make the Ultimate Salted Caramel With MSG

Caramel is great, but salted caramel, with its contrasting flavors, is even better. Add MSG to that mixture, and you have a sweet and salty, buttery, gooey caramel sauce with just a hint of umami (sorta like a fish sauce caramel, but without the fish, and much more dessert friendly). It is—and I cannot stress this…

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Author: Claire Lower on Skillet, shared by Claire Lower to Lifehacker

How to Livestream a Funeral

If you died tomorrow, how many people would feel compelled to travel for your funeral, and how far would they have to come? It’s now fairly commonplace to leave your hometown and move across the country or abroad, at least for a while, and to find your loved ones scattered across thousands of miles.

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Author: Meghan Moravcik Walbert

Ask The Salty Waitress: My boss wants me to pay for wine glasses I shattered

Dear Salty, Last night as I was carrying some clean wine glasses from the kitchen out to the dining room, I slipped on a small spill in the kitchen and fell into some metal shelves. I broke all the nice glasses I was carrying and had a couple small cuts, but was otherwise fine. The chef/owner of the restaurant saw…

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Author: The Salty Waitress on The Takeout, shared by Virginia K. Smith to Lifehacker