1 year ago Caldren wasn’t one for taking risks or making foolhardy choices but he knew if followed procedure gave that book to his superiors he would lose his chance to track down the explorers writings and find that map he had made. He quickly hide the slim book on the inside of his robes…
Caldren just stared. Fifteen years of searching. Scouring books, tracking obscure clues—and now, here he was, standing on the precipice of his journey’s end. And he was terrified. After almost a month of searching this area he was now sitting across the fire from a being made of light was telling him she can teach…
Caldren’s first instinct was to run. He edged back towards the trees quietly hoping he wasn’t noticed. His food and all his equipment were still by the fire however including his knife. Not that I’d be able to do much with that, he thought to himself but maybe if I hide whoever this person is…
One of the first things I explored in the realm of AI was text to image generation. It wasn’t my first interaction with this type of AI – I had checked out Firefly on my work account to generate a few things and even used Midjourney when it was first introduced. I wasn’t impressed really…
Steamed pizza is one of the most unusual and under-the-radar styles of pizza out there, a method that flips the traditional idea of a crispy, blistered crust on its head in favor of something softer, almost pillowy. While most pizzas are baked in blazing-hot ovens, fried in oil, or even grilled over an open flame,…
Nutella dessert pizza is the kind of indulgence that feels almost too good to be true, a perfect fusion of crispy, chewy pizza dough and rich, velvety chocolate-hazelnut spread. While it may seem like a modern Instagram-worthy creation, its roots can be traced back to Italy, where simple, dough-based desserts have long been a staple.…
I was at a work conference in Manhattan for a week and decided to seize this opportunity to squeeze in a few more famous pizza places into my year. Joe’s Pizza on Broadway. All the pizza people have a consensus that this is an exemplary NY slice and I was curious to give it a…
Ah yes, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, or as I like to call it, What If Breakups Were Even More Emotionally Devastating and Science Made It Worse? Michel Gondry and Charlie Kaufman basically took the universal human experience of heartbreak, ran it through a surrealist blender, and served it up as one of the…
Remember back during Covid when everyone was making sourdough? I kind of wish I got on that train as keeping this stupid thing alive would have been a lot easier if I was working from home every day and we didn’t go anywhere. Well – getting it started was a huge pain but even remembering…
If you’ve ever strolled through the streets of Rome, hungry and indecisive, there’s a good chance you’ve been saved by pizza al taglio. This Roman-style pizza—whose name literally means “pizza by the cut”—is the ultimate street food. It’s baked in large rectangular trays, displayed like edible works of art behind glass counters, and cut to…