James Conrad

03 Mar 2025

Broke-Ass Recipes: Shepherd’s Pie

St. Patrick’s Day falls on March 17, and shepherd’s pie has long been associated therewith. It’s also a great comfort food for rainy days. Although there is a common strict notion that shepherd’s pie is a dish of ground lamb stewed with peas, carrots and corn and topped with mashed

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23 Feb 2025

Gilead Wants to PrEP a Truvada Substitute

Gilead Sciences has been accused of delaying the release of an updated tenofovir formula to prolong its patent protections and maintain a monopoly on the market, potentially causing harm to HIV patients and increasing costs for insurers.

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03 Feb 2025

Broke-Ass Recipes: Stovetop Pizza

BY JAMES CONRAD Although people from Detroit, Chicago, New York City and especially my hometown of New Haven each have very hard-and-fast rules about what pizza is and isn’t, the dish has existed in one form or another since the 6th century B.C.E. and is not specifically exclusively Italian in

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20 Jan 2025

Broke-Ass Recipes: Chicken Parmesan Sandwich

By James Conrad Pollo alla parmigiana, better known in the United States as chicken parmesan or chicken parm for short is rooted in the Italian immigrant community throughout the eastern United States, from Rhode Island to Delaware to New Orleans throughout the late 19th and early 20th century. It was

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22 Dec 2024

Broke-Ass Recipes: Beef Stroganov

To be sure, Beef Stroganov most certainly does not refer to a lewd act committed with cattle. As a matter of fact, it is a hearty dish of Russian origin defined by the sour cream and Dijon mustard that go into its proprietary sauce and damn good eating on cold

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15 Dec 2024

Broke-Ass Recipes: Cock-a-leekie

Though cock-a-leekie is considered Scotland’s official soup, it was adapted from a French recipe using chicken, broth and onions through replacing the latter with its gentler taxonomic relative, the leek, which has been widely cultivated in Scotland since the Middle Ages. Though the first recorded instance of this change dates

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11 Dec 2024

Satire Website Accidentally Reports Actual News About Altoona McDonald’s

On 9 December 2024, five days after the targeted fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, the suspect, 26-year-old Maryland native Luigi Mangione, was apprehended in Altoona, Pennsylvania and charged with second-degree murder and numerous other offenses. According to the manifesto discovered during the arrest, Mangione despaired of the US

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09 Dec 2024

Broke-Ass Recipes: Trifle

The word “trifle” was first used in a culinary context in 1585, appearing in The Good Husvvifes Ievvell, a cookbook by English author Thomas Dawson. The term referred to a thick cream flavoured with sugar, ginger and rosewater. By the middle 18th century, the recipe evolved to entail setting biscuits

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