Someone once commented that if the U.S. ever went metric the only people who'd be familiar with the measurements were scientists and drug dealers.
Dawn ,'Storyteller'
Non-Fiction TV: I Reject Your Reality and Substitute My Own
This thread is for non-fiction TV, including but not limited to reality television (So You Think You Can Dance, Top Chef: Masters, Project Runway), documentaries (The History Channel, The Discovery Channel), and sundry (Expedition Africa, Mythbusters), et al. [NAFDA]
Someone once commented that if the U.S. ever went metric the only people who'd be familiar with the measurements were scientists and drug dealers.
And obsessive bakers!
You can make castor sugar by whirring regular sugar in a blender or food processor for 10 seconds or so.
The oven thing is just impossible to translate or understand. That's my position anyway.
Well, it's not like I'm going to actually make anything they did on the show ... I just want to know. Thanks for the explanations (but I do remember seeing superfine sugar - which I assume would be castor sugar - in the store).
Anyone else watching Drag Race All-Stars?
Yep. I'm not sure how I feel about the winner.
I was furious for a while, in a way I wouldn't have been if either of them had won, but then I realized I don't actually care and Manila is the winner of my heart anyway.
A series that recently started on PBS is good - Museum Secrets. The first, on the Louvre, spent a good deal of time on when the Mona Lisa was stolen. However, the one I found more interesting was on the Ontario museum - they had built a new dinosaur exhibit and wanted a really, really big dinosaur to anchor it. So the man in charge went off to another museum to see if they could borrow one of theirs ... but on the plane he was reading a story about how his museum HAD a dinosaur, a big one - the story even had the accession number. So he went back, checked it out and found out that they did, indeed, have a huge dinosaur ... but it was lost. It had been taken down, disassembled and put into storage years before ... and the bits and pieces had been moved around, so he didn't find all the bones in one space (as of the filming they were still looking). Turns out they had one of the rarest dinosaur skeletons ... and it's been named Gordo and is a major feature in the exhibit.
Was anyone going to tell me that Big Brother starts THIS Tuesday?? And then CBS is also having a five-night-a-week dating (??) show??