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But cooking sous vide eliminates the problem of AGEs (advanced glycation endproducts).

I'm thinking about sous vide as a way to perk up the limited fare on the cutting regime I'm starting - e.g. a lean steak, cooked to medium rare with ginger, herbs and garlic and topped with pickled green onion and cucumber.

I don't do reviews very much. But my repeat business to good providers speaks volumes.

I love my office desk. I bought it at an antique store in Santa Rosa. It's teak, designed and manufactured in Denmark in the late 60s. I don't know if I believe her, but the dealer said it was a museum piece because the designer is famous.

I've had furniture reupholstered. Even though it costs nearly as much as replacing, I would still do it for pieces that I liked. All of our furniture is pretty nice quality and I like all of it, so I will get it reupholstered as needed.

Getting upholstered furniture reupholstered costs nearly as much as buying new.

Fabric lampshades have sort of a lifespan. We have a few silk lampshades. One is white, and looks fine. But another is black and long ago faded to gray from sun exposure. But the fabric is still strong and in good condition.

I suppose it's a good rule if you want your furniture to always look brand new.

I think the useful life of a mattress my be about ten years. Homes with children are hard on furniture, but otherwise, how would you wear it out after only ten years?

I was talking with a native guy about this, and he said that false negatives are also a problem. I don't remember how he explained it exactly but it also had to do with the small sample of Native genotypes.

The only applicable box, besides 'Asian' is 'Other.' In text ads, sometimes Indian men self-identify as 'Desi.' I like East Asians and I like Desis. So if I was expecting an East Asian and a Desi showed up, it would be fine with me. What about Pakistanis? South Asians, I guess. Pakistanis, when they speak English, have similar accents to Indians. And then there are Bangladeshis. South Asian again, I guess.

Weekdays I'm out of bed by 5:30A. Weekends I sleep in until 6:30 or so. I think I remember being able to sleep in until 11 or noon, but I'm not sure.

I had mine done. Like Elizabeth Warren's family, there is a story in my family about a native ancestor. Same scenario- no documentation, just stories. The 23andme assay revealed my ancestry to be 100% European. I did the math once and the story didn't make sense to me. My mothers family are supposed to have emigrated to Canada during the French Revolution. My great-grandfather was born in Canada in 1822. So that would leave a time window of 30 years or so in which the native ancestor could have been brought into the family. Not impossible, but less likely when you are not dealing with a long span of history.

Doesn't that go without saying. If one says, "I go for black guys," clearly you don't go for every black guy on the planet. But the whole question of race forces us into these predicaments where we feel we have to go to ridiculous lengths to clarify what we meant. A black guy who I dated was terrified of being objectified because he was black, even though he himself dated only white guys. So if he got any indication that a guy he was dating was into him because of his skin color, he would drop them flat, no explanation, just walk away. I think it was a ridiculous position, because how can you separate someone from their skin color? Even if you're not someone with a fetishistic attraction to a particular skin color, how really can you separate a man's skin color from who he is. It's part of who he is.

I If he was going to kiss you, it was ill-considered of him to surprise you with tongue-in-mouth. But if it had been preceded by a fair amount of erotic contact, I think I would have welcomed it. I've had everything from prissy therapeutic massages from straight guys to erotic massages that turned into full-on sucking, fucking and rimming on the massage table. I guess there's a time and a place.

My gym is packed with handsome Asian muscle boys like him. I think they're all straight though.

He's a different color from day to day.

This isn't the first time you and I have locked horns. We're like oil and water.

Yes, the latest neuroscience is showing that a behavioral change initiates remodeling of the CNS almost immediately, even in the aged.

I like porcelain too, but I like the transparent look of a redhead's skin. And the blood vessels showing through are sort of green.

Even if that is Even if that is true, do you reflexively go around answering whatever is asked of you. I repeat, "Who said you had to?"

I don't have any experience with any of them. I'm hot and cold on Ethan. His ad copy is very sexy, I love his face, but his body I'm not wild about.

I would agree that I am used by unacknowledged biases, but life is an endless process of peeling back the layers of the onion. Every time you get to a new layer, you get to choose whether it will use you or not.

I've made a complete turnaround with redheads. I wasn't into the pale skin tone either. But for reasons that I don't understand, a while ago, it began to seem beautiful to me. I love that lily-white skin with the blue veins showing through.

In a perfect world, that would be true. In fact, skin color is just another phenotype, like hair color, eye color, etc. However, skin color has been inextricably linked with the notion of "race" and everything that race connotes. We live in a racist society and it is impossible not to be affected by it. If people were actually able to say that they weren't into a certain skin tone in the same way that they aren't into a certain eye color, there would be no problem, and perhaps in a few generations we will get there. You say you don't seek out people who look like you as potential partners. But I bet you haven't made a categorical decision that all blue-eyed people, forever and all, are unsuitable as potential partners. And I don't imagine you have a lot of stories and preconceived notions about how blue-eyed people are and why you don't choose them as partners. You're just not into them. Because skin color is so solidly linked with "race," it is nearly impossible to make that choice.