This morning, as I sweated my way up Agnew Pass in the Eastern Sierra, dreaming about eventually throwing my overheated body into Gem Lake at nearly 9,500 feet, I kept muttering one very motivational thought under my breath: If Dolly Parton could spend fifty years walking around in five-inch heels, I could make it up …
This has been the summer when I have said hell no to turning my oven on. And it’s all thanks to my obsession with the air fryer. And yes, that even includes taking my air fryer on a camping trip, because It’s My Birthday and I will do what I want! Including inhaling my favorite …
Here in the rural mountain town of Big Bear Lake, California, you would think our local bakeries could manage to stay out of controversy. You have one job, small-town bakeries: make me fatter so I feel morally obligated to hike ten miles tomorrow. Sell me a croissant. Hand me a cookie. Charge me nine dollars …
Back in my formative years, you know, when we still had to tape our favorite shows on the old VCR, Mulder told me to “trust no one,” and I still abide by those wise words from my favorite sci-fi cult classic, The X-Files. Aliens, shady government operatives, strange lights hovering over the desert—trust no one. …
If you are not running for your life through the cow dung-filled streets of Kammanahalli, Bangalore, while an Indian bassu (City bus) chases you down, well then, you probably have not built your appetite to enjoy these authentic Empire-Style Air Fryer Chicken Kabobs! Is it hard to run from a bassu while wearing a traditional …