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The other day, I realized another food opinion that may be worth sharing: I don’t think chocolate and mint pair all that well.
I understand the idea of the pairing completely. There are, after all, a lot of interesting foods to pair with chocolate any trip to a chocolate shop would reveal so. I think the main problem with the chocolate-mint pairing, though, is that it’s extremely hard to execute. A venue where I think mint really shines is in drinks, because it brings out the punch of the mint without disrupting the other flavors in a drink. For the most part, you do not have to mess too much with the form of the mint crushing or chopping it only serves to spread out the flavor, not change it.
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“If you put a frog in a boiling pot of water, that frog is going to jump out straightaway,” FKA twigs tells Elle magazine in the cover story for its March 2021 issue. “Whereas if you put a frog in cool water and heat it up slowly, that frog is going to boil to death. That was my experience being with [him].” It’s a familiar analogy used to describe what twigs, born Tahliah Debrett Barnett, alleges was “calculated, systematic, tricky, and mazelike” manipulation on the part of her ex-partner, actor-filmmaker Shia LaBeouf. Twigs went public with accounts of abuse from the actor in December, filing a civil lawsuit that alleged escalating emotional and physical abuse from LaBeouf over the course of a yearlong relationship that began on the set of his semi-autobiographical film