What's Cooking?

By Baxter

There's a new COVID variant lurking about, but we cats are choosing to look on the bright side of life. We just got back from Montreal, where people are très compliant about vaccine passports and masking. It's hard to describe how relaxed one feels in a restaurant or pub when you know everyone's gotten their shot(s) and only remove their masks when they're seated at their table or the bar.

And as long as we're on the subject of consuming edibles and beverages — both of which are exquisite experiences in Quebec — we guess (sigh) we have to say something about the right wing's attempt to make Vice President Harris's purchase of cookware in Paris a thing.

As with the Lauren Boebert Islamaphobe scandal (which we're convinced she did just for the attention), we're loath to join the cookware conversation, because it's silly. But there's an obligation to not only call bullshit on the Trumpsters' attempt to undermine Harris — they're clearly afraid of her — but to stand up for the right of people to cook food using the right tools.

It's actually not clear to us what Vice President Harris bought. We saw video of her pointing to a wall filled with copper pieces, and asking for a certain piece en français. Since then, it's morphed into a social media meme in which she bought Le Creuset. It doesn't matter — you can be sure that whatever she bought was quality.

Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff, are serious cooks. Our humans are not, so much. But they love good food, and they cook so much better when they do it with Le Creuset. It actually improves their kitchen performance! So there.

By the way, at $375 a piece, it would take the Vice President buying nearly 350 Le Creuset pieces to equal the amount of money Benedict Donald paid Stormy Daniels for 10 seconds of bad sex. Just sayin'. We cats PURR.