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Creator of the New Travel & Design Series, 'OTHER PEOPLE'S HOUSES.'
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Every week, we're exploring global culture through the lens of the home. From floorplans to fixtures, we examine how houses are built, designed, and decorated around the world (with a side of sass, of course!)
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The only podcast where we pass on the pyramids and poke around in the plumbing. Iβm Ash, and I'm, exploring the strange, smart, and wonderful ways houses are built, designed, and decorated around the world.
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A new series of OTHER PEOPLE'S HOUSES books designed to help you try on a new life in different places around the worldβby getting to "go behind closed doors" inside local homes to discover what it's really like to live there.
Here in Colorado, it’s all about the green chili. It’s perfect with nearly anything. My poor Canadian husband cannot fathom the appeal. He swears that we all burnt out our taste buds long ago. He could not decipher the difference between the taste of a green chili grown in Pueblo, CO from one grown in Hatch NM, from one from AZ. But for us natives with our sophisticated palates, we know exactly where it’s from. I’m with you on the Tabasco sauce – YUCK!
Green chili for sure! I’m from Colorado but live in Alaska and finding anyone who knows what real green chili is here or any place else for that matter isn’t going to happen. (never ever ask for green chili in Illinois lol). I grew up on it and thankfully my German mother had a huge love of green chili and made her own and passed that recipe to me.
If I make a huge batch, I should ship you some! I had βgreen chiliβ in Ohio once and really wondered what the heck they made it from – exceptionally awful!
You make your own too that’s awesome! In Illinois I asked for green chili, once, they looked at me funny and brought me this burrito in the most awful green enchilada sauce I have ever had. Have you ever had The Abide Ride’s burritos in Conifer? Food truck with amazing green chili that I go back for everytime I’m there.
Keep up the good work!
” A teaspoon of Frankβs RedHot Original Cayenne Pepper Sauce contains 2 percent of your daily vitamin A requirement. Vitamin A is important for maintaining your vision, immune system and is necessary for proper function of various organs including your lungs liver and kidneys.” PEPPERSCALE
Cheese.
Any cheese.
On everything.
I can’t remember meeting a cheese I didn’t like.
We are addicted to convenience. When I was stationed in Rota Spain in the mid/late 80s, there were no telephones to call for pizza delivery even if they delivered anything – other than butano. Everything was closed during siesta. Someone said, “The U.S is the only place where you can pick up the phone, call someone and say, “I am hungry” and food will be delivered to your door.”
And we keep wanting more convenience – making everything easy.
In Indonesia we have this horrifically wonderful thing called “GoJek”. It’s like Uber Eats, but your food comes from a motorbike driver and can be from literally any restaurant in the South Bali area. Delivered for less than a dollar. Talk about convenience? I will miss it when I move back to the US in September…
I know I am but spoiled as hell in NC but lickety split pizza delivery in Bali sounds glorious. ππ»
I didn’t fall in love with hot sauce until I moved to Colorado now it’s all I want!! Have you had buffalo chicken TACOS? I make them at home and top them with homemade carrot slaw too β€οΈβπ₯. Another personal favorite is a high protein buffalo chicken casserole…..I’m so hungry rn.
And flavored coffee creamers — we’ve got that down, too.
Mine aren’t feel-goods, but after living abroad and traveling abroad a lot more than i ever anticipated, I would say: Microwave food (seconding the person who said convenience!), identical neighborhoods across the country, ice in a glass of water or soda, expecting everywhere to have the same customs amd condiments at the U.S., and judging other people while resenting anyone who judges them. (That last one is maybe not unique to the U.S., but we have our own flavor here, and it scales from neighbors and relatives to communitites and beyond.) Oh, and Western-ish/Southern-ish accents, especially places where someone’s trying to insist their squeaky-clean-and-new cowboy boots make them a local with authority to say what America is and should be. The twang seems to deepen the farther folks get from places where a twang really is the local accent.
Dark chocolate salted caramels from WholeFoods. When I was visiting the US last month I had a box of these next to my bed (jet lag). And why not? I can’t do that in Indonesia. Oh, and Taco Bell. Although the Seven Layer Burrito is gone now and I have no idea what its replacement is… There will be time to explore.
Hot sauce is Deviiiiiiiiiiiiine!! We eat buffalo wings around here on a weekly basis. My refrigerator is mostly full of various types of hot sauce. Itβs a cornucopia of condiments, filling every nook and cranny. I can no longer eat ketchup without adding hot sauce to it! π€¦πΎββοΈ
I am a Canadian with an American husband and scrolled down to the comments to post exactly this! Thank you for taking care of it.
Love Franks. We make a buffalo chicken dish at home with potatoes, cheese, bacon and franks that is amazing.
Ice, peanut butter, marshmallows. If you are southern, candied sweet potatoes and holiday dinners that include green bean casserole. whatever latest health food grain fad – quinoa, hemp hearts. I am personally on the fonio grain train. Also fond of the Frank’s and agree, there is no substitute.
Yes, those are good, but when here try Bonfire Burritos in Golden! They won the best burrito contest by the Denver Post a few years back for a reason. They started as a food truck but had so much business and such long lines that they had to build a bricks and mortar restaurant. Awesome – get the Fuego sauce – no messing around there!!