The series is less a procedural crime drama than a social portrait diving headfirst into the simmering cultural anxiety around boys and young men in the age of incels, male dislocation, and toxic podcasts.
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Nicholas Quah,
Vulture,
19 Mar. 2025
Some soups simmer for hours, developing layers of flavor that take us back to slow dinners at Grandma’s house.
The veggies are parboiled until bright green and tender-crisp.
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Southern Living Editors,
Southern Living,
22 Feb. 2024
The mottled beans that are parboiled and salted, the toxic pokeweed cooked into tasty greens, the dumplings wrapped in hickory leaves and tied with stalks of rush — these, like the milkies, are meant to be shared.
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Jacey Fortin Mike Belleme,
New York Times,
21 Oct. 2023
Rosin bags are made from a sap that’s pulled from pine trees in Honduras, then boiled to distill out the turpentine.
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Jason Mastrodonato,
Mercury News,
29 Mar. 2025
Tour guide Danielle Oteri has navigated dozens of group trips through southern Italy and New York City, and they’re all typically made up of the same archetypes: the planner, the drinker, the one who is quietly boiling with resentment.
Were Manchester City serious title contenders having poached Vivianne Miedema from a direct rival on a free transfer?
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Julia Ranney,
New York Times,
28 Mar. 2025
The vast majority of these antlers and furs were seized or otherwise obtained by the DWR during poaching investigations, in which cases the poachers would have been court-ordered to forfeit the items.
With these four tools, a home cook is able to accomplish a large swath of stovetop tasks in the kitchen: pan frying, deep frying, sautéing, boiling, braising, searing, stewing, saucing, melting, tempering, steaming, and the list goes on.
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Wilder Davies,
Bon Appétit,
12 Mar. 2025
And look, getting passed over sucks, but instead of stewing, start asking why.
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