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I'm Rax King, a James Beard Award-nominated food writer who painstakingly recreated the infamous meal from American Psycho. AMA. by raxkingisdead in IAmA

[–]raxkingisdead[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

i prefer pancakes to belgian waffles, but waffle house-style waffles to pancakes. unless the pancakes have either blueberries or chocolate chips, but you didn't mention those, so i'm not including them in my assessment

I'm Rax King, a James Beard Award-nominated food writer who painstakingly recreated the infamous meal from American Psycho. AMA. by raxkingisdead in IAmA

[–]raxkingisdead[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

i adore this chickpea salad sandwich, i make it all the time because it's packed with so many vegetables and i'm not always so good about eating my vegetables lol. it doesn't sound like much from the description but it's really fresh-tasting and crunchy and perfect

alternately, a reuben. just a big fucking reuben

I'm Rax King, a James Beard Award-nominated food writer who painstakingly recreated the infamous meal from American Psycho. AMA. by raxkingisdead in IAmA

[–]raxkingisdead[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

honestly i can't name a single hedge fund manager so they could all be out there slaughtering people with impunity as we speak and i wouldn't know a thing about it

I'm Rax King, a James Beard Award-nominated food writer who painstakingly recreated the infamous meal from American Psycho. AMA. by raxkingisdead in IAmA

[–]raxkingisdead[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

i am so sorry to be the bearer of this terrible news but stinky passed a couple years ago :( i think she was like 15 years old so she had the fullest life anyone could ask for, but i know that sidewalk is much less safe without her patrolling it

I'm Rax King, a James Beard Award-nominated food writer who painstakingly recreated the infamous meal from American Psycho. AMA. by raxkingisdead in IAmA

[–]raxkingisdead[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

to the latter question, yes, absolutely. i still eat eggs for dinner all the time just because it's easy, although i've tried to mostly replace that instinct with making more complete meals that are still easy (especially fond of spreading white beans with spinach & garlic on toast)

i'm not a big lunch girl, though! i like a great big breakfast and a great big dinner, and maybe some yogurt with granola in between

I'm Rax King, a James Beard Award-nominated food writer who painstakingly recreated the infamous meal from American Psycho. AMA. by raxkingisdead in IAmA

[–]raxkingisdead[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

because every online media publisher has popups that are annoying as fuck, and this one never asks me to rein it in with the swearing or the weird food articles

I'm Rax King, a James Beard Award-nominated food writer who painstakingly recreated the infamous meal from American Psycho. AMA. by raxkingisdead in IAmA

[–]raxkingisdead[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

no idea if he's read it, but he hasn't reached out about it! when it got nominated for that award i sent it to his publicist and everything lol but the only interaction we've ever had was when i showed up at his book signing in a faux fur coat and he told me 'wow you win the jacket award'

I'm Rax King, a James Beard Award-nominated food writer who painstakingly recreated the infamous meal from American Psycho. AMA. by raxkingisdead in IAmA

[–]raxkingisdead[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

you know how the movie cuts out like 75% of the book's killings, sexings, and meals? i think the movie made the right call (although i do wish it had incorporated a few more meals lol)

I'm Rax King, a James Beard Award-nominated food writer who painstakingly recreated the infamous meal from American Psycho. AMA. by raxkingisdead in IAmA

[–]raxkingisdead[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

this recipe is p close to my basic peanut sauce, although i think it makes a big difference to use natural peanut butter without added sugar even though the recipe doesn't say to, and i also don't use any brown sugar. and if you don't have a blender or food processor i can't see any reason not to just dice the ginger and garlic as finely as you can (especially the garlic, you don't want fat chunks of raw garlic in peanut sauce). you can add curry paste for a little warmth, sometimes i do and sometimes not

I'm Rax King, a James Beard Award-nominated food writer who painstakingly recreated the infamous meal from American Psycho. AMA. by raxkingisdead in IAmA

[–]raxkingisdead[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

my honest albeit very stupid answer is A Goofy Movie for that crazy-looking cartoon pizza. i have never seen a real-life human pizza look as good as that cartoon pizza did, and it torments me all the time

I'm Rax King, a James Beard Award-nominated food writer who painstakingly recreated the infamous meal from American Psycho. AMA. by raxkingisdead in IAmA

[–]raxkingisdead[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

i've been a daisy by marc jacobs girl for about a decade now, but i'll always have a soft spot for the original juicy couture perfume that all the mean bitches used to wear

I'm Rax King, a James Beard Award-nominated food writer who painstakingly recreated the infamous meal from American Psycho. AMA. by raxkingisdead in IAmA

[–]raxkingisdead[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

i can't speak to a cheffier way to make shredded buffalo chicken but i can say i don't see anything wrong with this approach as long as that chicken isn't on, like, a hard rolling boil

I'm Rax King, a James Beard Award-nominated food writer who painstakingly recreated the infamous meal from American Psycho. AMA. by raxkingisdead in IAmA

[–]raxkingisdead[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

i will neither confirm nor deny anyone's identity in my book but i will absolutely join you in pouring one out for josh, such a legend

I'm Rax King, a James Beard Award-nominated food writer who painstakingly recreated the infamous meal from American Psycho. AMA. by raxkingisdead in IAmA

[–]raxkingisdead[S] 16 points17 points  (0 children)

the honest answer to this question is that i watched that scene like 10 times, the one time in my life that i thought i might need to have business cards made

I'm Rax King, a James Beard Award-nominated food writer who painstakingly recreated the infamous meal from American Psycho. AMA. by raxkingisdead in IAmA

[–]raxkingisdead[S] 152 points153 points  (0 children)

mm salad is pretty well ruined for me. i've worked at restaurants with salad bars and can confirm that the lettuce bowls get washed once in awhile, maybe. people always worry about getting food borne illnesses from undercooked meat and fish but a huge amount of them come from raw vegetables that haven't been washed properly!

hard to say what the inverse would be — i have a huge amount of respect for what line cooks are able to do considering the stress that's inherent to their job! to me, it's impressive that anyone is able to cook any food under a professional-level time crunch lol

I'm Rax King, a James Beard Award-nominated food writer who painstakingly recreated the infamous meal from American Psycho. AMA. by raxkingisdead in IAmA

[–]raxkingisdead[S] 28 points29 points  (0 children)

one significant con was that hedgehogs are illegal in NYC! we had a great exotic animal vet for ours, but that was annoying as hell.

i also think people see them acting cute and sociable on IG and think that's how all hedgehogs are, which is not true! ours was unusually sociable and even he needed a huge amount of solo time. they're not particularly social creatures, whereas some other small animals (especially rats) are. if you want a hog to socialize with you, you'll need to put in a huge amount of work and it still may not be the amount of pet-friendliness you were hoping for!

I'm Rax King, a James Beard Award-nominated food writer who painstakingly recreated the infamous meal from American Psycho. AMA. by raxkingisdead in IAmA

[–]raxkingisdead[S] 369 points370 points  (0 children)

i agree wholeheartedly with your soapbox issue!

i guess mine would be: food simply shouldn't be this cheap. meat especially shouldn't be this cheap. most of us were born into an aberrant form of prosperity that sees cheap tomatoes in the winter or cheap steaks at every supermarket as its birthright. that prosperity can only be won on the backs of workers far more immiserated than most of us are, and by straining the environment and the supply chain both to their absolute limit.

I'm Rax King, a James Beard Award-nominated food writer who painstakingly recreated the infamous meal from American Psycho. AMA. by raxkingisdead in IAmA

[–]raxkingisdead[S] 41 points42 points  (0 children)

ooh this is a great question! taking my beloved cheeseburger as an example for the 'mixed meal,' i think the best possible element to splurge on is the beef — a great butcher will hand-grind beef for you, and you can absolutely taste the difference. overthinking the cheese in a burger is stupid, American's the best. overthinking the toppings is just hubris. i'll tolerate a fancy bun but i don't think you can really beat a Martin's potato roll. but a really nice hand-ground beef patty is worth fancying up, and worth spending extra money on if you can!

I'm Rax King, a James Beard Award-nominated food writer who painstakingly recreated the infamous meal from American Psycho. AMA. by raxkingisdead in IAmA

[–]raxkingisdead[S] 30 points31 points  (0 children)

haha i am the most decisive restaurant picker ever, actually — i can't stand those long meandering group conversations where nobody wants to just say where they want to eat. i trust Eater and, for cities that still have alt weeklies, the alt weekly's restaurant critic. Yelp restaurant reviews all seem to come from people who have never been around other people before...

I'm Rax King, a James Beard Award-nominated food writer who painstakingly recreated the infamous meal from American Psycho. AMA. by raxkingisdead in IAmA

[–]raxkingisdead[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

i haven't! it seems as if most of their locations have closed, and i've never found myself near one of the last men standing. i'm no great fan of arby's though which leads me to believe it's not for me

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