joe hills from nashville tennessee might be the single most fascinating person on earth to me. like the voice, the clothes, the pronouns, the attitude. what isn't to love?
Bulgarian recipes (or at least the ones my family makes): Cheese. More cheese. You think that's enough? No, more cheese. Wait, you though I was talking about cow cheese? Foolish child, everyone knows you must only use feta cheese or goat cheese. Also you better make sure you cook every meal with your great grandmother so that you memorize the recipe because every single family WILL make this differently and if you happen to find a recipe online it will come with about 50 disclaimers saying how every family makes it differently and I guarantee trying to follow that recipe will result in practically a different dish. Yes, I know that it looks the exact same. It will still be uncomparatively different. Cook with your elders or else
french recipes: if you’re not making this in paris then what’s the point. fuck you
italian recipes: use the left leg meat of a pig from one of three farms in this specific area of tuscany, or from this day my grandmother will begin manifesting physically in your house
My friend sometimes brings her six-year-old to our DnD sessions and my husband (the DM) lets her roll for all enemy attacks and sometimes he will show her a few figures and let her secretly pick what creature we meet next. Who needs encounter tables when you have a first-grader around