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3:15 pm
Mon August 6, 2012

Sandwich Monday: The Van Engelenfrozen

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Not all of these ingredients were used.
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The sandwich can be eaten open-faced.
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By Ian Chillag

Originally published on Mon August 6, 2012 3:19 pm

It's our intern MacKenzie Van Engelenhoven's last week, and she asked if she could bring in the sandwich on her final Sandwich Monday. We said "of course," because the only thing we love more than sandwiches is having the intern do things we should be doing ourselves.

It's an old Van Engelenhoven family recipe: Make cookies, bake them only four minutes, and freeze them. This maximizes the cookie-dough-ness when you make ice cream sandwiches out of them.

Mike: It's like cookie dough ice cream, reversed. Genius.

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You Must Read This
3:14 pm
Mon August 6, 2012

An Apocalyptic Romp Through The 'Golden' State

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Gabrielle Zevin is the author of All These Things I've Done. She also writes screenplays, including Conversations with Other Women.
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Originally published on Mon August 6, 2012 5:44 pm

Gabrielle Zevin's latest book is All These Things I've Done.

Forgive me, Facebook! I do not always want to tell people what I like. This flaw in my character puts me at odds with much of modern life, which is, of course, organized around a relentless cycle of recommendation.

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The Salt
2:15 pm
Mon August 6, 2012

Three Ways Lucille Ball Ruled When She Played With Food

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Vivian Vance and Lucille Ball ham it up at the chocolate factory in a famous food-centric episode of "I Love Lucy."
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Originally published on Mon October 15, 2012 10:08 am

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Television
12:23 pm
Mon August 6, 2012

Dean Norris On Playing Good In 'Breaking Bad'

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Dean Norris plays DEA agent Hank Schrader in AMC's Breaking Bad. "He's a good cop, he just hasn't put the pieces together yet," Norris says.
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Originally published on Mon August 6, 2012 12:54 pm

With each season of AMC's Breaking Bad, Dean Norris' character, DEA agent Hank Schrader, has evolved from a knuckleheaded jock into a complex, sympathetic and even heroic counterpoint to the show's anti-hero, high-school chemistry teacher turned meth cook Walter White. And to further complicate matters, Schrader and White (played by Bryan Cranston) are brothers-in-law.

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Monkey See
10:34 am
Mon August 6, 2012

Good Business, Bad Quality: How NBC Is Both Right And Wrong On The Olympics

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Usain Bolt of Jamaica celebrates winning gold in the Men's 100m Final yesterday. If you get your Olympics coverage on television, you didn't see it live.
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Originally published on Mon August 6, 2012 12:33 pm

The following exchange has played out over and over in the last ten days:

Point: "NBC's coverage of the Olympics stinks, because everything is tape-delayed and cut to shreds, and also the announcers are awful and they only care about American athletes, and by the time I get to watch anything, I already know what happened."

Counterpoint: "People are watching in huge numbers."

Point: "But quality."

Counterpoint: "But business."

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