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Aaron Mandel @aimandel.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

The thing is, after the first time, we knew they were hot and still wanted to use them.

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Aaron Mandel @aimandel.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Black forest rolls. Basically, cinnamon roll dough with a chocolate and dried cherry filling and a vanilla sugar glaze.

Photo of twelve black forest rolls with a trickle of vanilla sugar glaze.

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Aaron Mandel @aimandel.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

At an exhibit at the St Louis Art Museum about the 1920s and 30s. This Teardop Talbot-Lago is a definite attraction. I could see myself driving this......anyone have a couple million? I'd let you drive it once....okay twice....three times. Damn.

Side view. Teardrop shape, silver with red fenders.

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Aaron Mandel @aimandel.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

The more I bake, the more I find i need certain products for certain projects. King Arthur is great for bread, but I get itchy baking cookies, muffins or scones without Weisenberger flour. Perhaps im getting overly fussy with age.

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Aaron Mandel @aimandel.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Drive through bordello? No, a convenience store in Missoui.

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Aaron Mandel @aimandel.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Back when I was a student, id be up to date on this kind of stuff. Since im just a consumer again, I no longer see things like that Surgeon General news item and start freaking out about how it'll come up on the exam. Its truly a relief.

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Aaron Mandel @aimandel.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

With that background, there may be a few students with good concrete examples

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Aaron Mandel @aimandel.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

The US Surgeon General suggested such a warning this past January and the WHO has suggested them.

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Aaron Mandel @aimandel.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Section B may have a wide split of which question the students answered, but I'm betting with A, most answered 2. Not many would have strong worldwide examples of the effect of warning labels on consumer buying habits.

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Aaron Mandel @aimandel.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

They've been having traffic issues. I don't think their site is equipped for the hits. This link is to the exam page, you can then open the link to the 2025 exam lower on the page. www.mastersofwine.org/mw-exam

mastersofwine.org

MW Exam | The Institute of Masters of Wine

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Aaron Mandel @aimandel.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

The annual list of MW wines and theory questions. Every wine requires a detailed explanation of your answer. It's possible to get the right wine but exhibit faulty reasoning, and fail that wine. Every theory question requires examples from around the world. www.mastersofwine.org/wp-content/u...

mastersofwine.org

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Aaron Mandel @aimandel.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Best of luck. I hope you have a swift and full recovery

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Aaron Mandel @aimandel.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Rarely fast food, but sometimes it just depends on how the day went

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Aaron Mandel @aimandel.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Pick a history book. Technology changes, people don't

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Aaron Mandel @aimandel.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

@simonjwoolf.com well done article about judging. Spitting always confuses people who don't judge but we've all judged at some point with people who swallow every glass. Typically, by 10 they are under the weather, by noon under the table.

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Aaron Mandel @aimandel.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

A plate of the cookies with the buttercream. Of course, now I have a huge amount of leftover buttercream....more cookies to come i guess

Frosted sugar cookies, green white and yellow

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Aaron Mandel @aimandel.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

We had a lot of powdered sugar, so sugar cookies. These are cooling but the powdered sugar went into three buttercreams for after the cookies cool: white, yellow and green. Why those colors? No color, single color, blended color (available colors were blue red and yellow-blue and yellow make green).

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Aaron Mandel @aimandel.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

I changed once, probably twenty years ago. That was enough.

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Aaron Mandel @aimandel.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Yes, I have a slightly different definition of "a lot of cheese" than I did before i started making cheese.

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Aaron Mandel @aimandel.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

After the gougères have been baked. Fluffy insides, cheese goodness

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Aaron Mandel @aimandel.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

We had a lot of cheese. Leftover cheese means cheese scones or Gougères. Scones were last weekend, Gougères this weekend. This is before baking. Yes,I sprinkled a bit of cheese on top:very cheesy. I also used cayenne instead of black pepper to add pop, so not true gougères

Raw dough for gougères. The top is sprinkled with cheese.

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Aaron Mandel @aimandel.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

I keep wondering what those folks are rolling in to need that

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Aaron Mandel @aimandel.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

That's about how they look. Very lightly browned underneath, but light on top. No frosting or glaze (you can, but i dont)

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Aaron Mandel @aimandel.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Orange Cardamom shortbread cookies. Very buttery with an orange-cardamom kick

Cookies right out of oven on cooling rack

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Aaron Mandel @aimandel.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Makes me concerned about the type of protein used for any fining

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Aaron Mandel @aimandel.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

I hope you have a full and swift recovery

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Aaron Mandel @aimandel.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Some of them now allow for you to sign in remotely so you can show up and only wait a few minutes rather than hours

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Aaron Mandel @aimandel.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Costco had blackberries on sale i had buttermilk. Sometimes, things just work out.

A broken blackberry muffin, showing blackberries inside

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Aaron Mandel @aimandel.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Had they added them together, I may have become ill on your behalf

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Aaron Mandel @aimandel.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Sadly, I missed this. Two of my favorites chatting about a very interesting and important topic. That's what I get for not playing on social media as much (admittedly, something hard to do these days)

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Aaron Mandel @aimandel.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Lemon Thyme sounds delicious

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Aaron Mandel @aimandel.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Playing this morning with a new idea: lemon poppyseed buttermilk biscuits. More savory than sweet (could add a touch of sugar if i wanted).

Seven lemon poppyseed buttermilk biscuits. Can see poppyseed throughout.

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Aaron Mandel @aimandel.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Mouse taint is the worst. I agree. You smell nothing off and then you want to purge.

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Aaron Mandel @aimandel.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

I believe we were only referencing the smell. You haven't really experienced washed rind cheese smell until you've made one and that dirty diaper smell fills the room. It takes great but that smell.....oh that smell.

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Aaron Mandel @aimandel.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

So you're saying it smells like epoisses?

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Aaron Mandel @aimandel.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

I lack the knowledge of what an uncleaned pig bottom smells like to either agree or disagree. I don't even know what a clean pigs bottom smells like.

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Aaron Mandel @aimandel.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

We found a bunch of white rice and frozen veggies in the freezer yesterday, so before 7 this morning I decided to make chicken fried rice. I've got issues.

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Aaron Mandel @aimandel.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Cassoulet for dinner tonight. Had to hunt all over for the sausages, but it turned out great

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Aaron Mandel @aimandel.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Schloss Schoenbrunn. I'm not really a big fan of castle tours. Yes, they're opulent and impressive. Truly, the part I found most fascinating was where they were performing renovation work: how often do you see what lay underneath?

Painted ceiling of Great Gallery painted by Gregorio Guglielmi and chandelier.

Brick walls underlying whatever had been covering them while renovations underway

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Aaron Mandel @aimandel.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

It would be nice if my phone would stop "correcting" Pavarotti.

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Aaron Mandel @aimandel.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

The autographed ceiling at Griechenbeisl restaurant in Vienna. Supposedly, Mozart and Beethoven signed. Pavaratti, Mark Twain, Egon Schiele and many others definitely did. They really need a list.

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