cool thing

Photographer Gabriele Galimberti has a project showcasing grandmothers from around the world and their cooking. Each woman is photographed with the ingredients for her special dish, and then there's a photo of the finished dish. And there are recipes (click on "More Info" below each photo). In true grandmother tradition, the recipes often don't give quantities, and sometimes ingredient names are untranslated and (to me) unfamiliar, but I'd certainly like to try cooking some of these. (I must admit to a particular fondness for Grace Estibero, of Mumbai, India, who suggests buying a premade masala for her chicken vindaloo: "Just buy it! Extremely easy, isn't it?")

Delicatessen with love.

Community

I'm a little over halfway through season three, having just finished 3x14, "Pillows and Blankets." For the first few episodes I was wondering what all the fuss over this season was about--it seemed a lot like season 2, a good, enjoyably offbeat sitcom with the occasional standout episode that was on another level entirely. "Remedial Chaos Theory" was a standout and the rest seemed to be business as usual. Until episode 8, "Documentary Filming: Redux"--that and almost every episode since have been standouts.

I have only one complaint: why is Britta stupid this season? She was never stupid before. I wish the show would stop picking on her.