Jasmine Mangalaseril 🧁
@cardamomaddict.bsky.social
food columnist for CBC-KW | freelancer elsewhere | Canadian | promiscuous eater | effervescent | cat pillow | equal opportunity buttertartist and apple fritterian with an art history degree.
Views: mine. Yes, I'm greedy that way.
Views: mine. Yes, I'm greedy that way.
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Welcome, my lovelies. I've misplaced my welcome post (prolly under a cat or a pile of books), so, here's a new one.
I'm a food writer, omnivorously rambling here in Waterloo Region (Canada).
My posts are disparate, and range from current affairs to art to food to whatever's happening in my life.
I'm a food writer, omnivorously rambling here in Waterloo Region (Canada).
My posts are disparate, and range from current affairs to art to food to whatever's happening in my life.
I’ve been lazily looking at new flooring (really hate what MV got). Found out hardwood is in my budget (for two rooms). They gave me a hygrometer to check humidity. I’m prepping myself for disappointment, but for now, I’m trying to be hopeful.
November 22, 2025 at 9:21 PM
I’ve been lazily looking at new flooring (really hate what MV got). Found out hardwood is in my budget (for two rooms). They gave me a hygrometer to check humidity. I’m prepping myself for disappointment, but for now, I’m trying to be hopeful.
An hour ago (with another 3.5 to go)..this beauty went into the oven. Adapting Nagy's slow-cooked Massaman lamb shoulder.
The aromas are amazing now...they'll just get better.
And no: No, I'm not good at gauging volumes. Got it into the oven without spilling, though!
#InMyKitchen
The aromas are amazing now...they'll just get better.
And no: No, I'm not good at gauging volumes. Got it into the oven without spilling, though!
#InMyKitchen
November 22, 2025 at 8:27 PM
An hour ago (with another 3.5 to go)..this beauty went into the oven. Adapting Nagy's slow-cooked Massaman lamb shoulder.
The aromas are amazing now...they'll just get better.
And no: No, I'm not good at gauging volumes. Got it into the oven without spilling, though!
#InMyKitchen
The aromas are amazing now...they'll just get better.
And no: No, I'm not good at gauging volumes. Got it into the oven without spilling, though!
#InMyKitchen
A memory came up that made me smile
13yrs ago today, I looked over at the loveseat and saw this; two minutes later, I saw the same scene, but roles were reversed (I took photos of both, but this one is still retrievable).
Caption was "Some days I'm Rufus. Some days I'm Nigel"
#Caturday #Cats
13yrs ago today, I looked over at the loveseat and saw this; two minutes later, I saw the same scene, but roles were reversed (I took photos of both, but this one is still retrievable).
Caption was "Some days I'm Rufus. Some days I'm Nigel"
#Caturday #Cats
November 22, 2025 at 5:19 PM
As a food culture writer, I LOVE this sort of column: shining a light on food cultures often left out of the mainstream spotlight. And (of course trying new-to-me foods)
Here's my column about cuisines that aren’t found elsewhere in the area.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
#FoodSky #Restaurants
Here's my column about cuisines that aren’t found elsewhere in the area.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
#FoodSky #Restaurants
November 22, 2025 at 3:30 PM
As a food culture writer, I LOVE this sort of column: shining a light on food cultures often left out of the mainstream spotlight. And (of course trying new-to-me foods)
Here's my column about cuisines that aren’t found elsewhere in the area.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
#FoodSky #Restaurants
Here's my column about cuisines that aren’t found elsewhere in the area.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
#FoodSky #Restaurants
Shall I mention he may have been shorter than me?
I'm 155cm
I'm 155cm
Well, my faith in humanity isn't totally in tatters...
For some reason the grocery store put the salt on the highest shelf, and stacked them on one another.
As I was on my tiptoes trying to get one, a guy offered help (by that point I'd jenga'd one of the lower ones out).
Still, he offered.
For some reason the grocery store put the salt on the highest shelf, and stacked them on one another.
As I was on my tiptoes trying to get one, a guy offered help (by that point I'd jenga'd one of the lower ones out).
Still, he offered.
November 21, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Shall I mention he may have been shorter than me?
I'm 155cm
I'm 155cm
Well, my faith in humanity isn't totally in tatters...
For some reason the grocery store put the salt on the highest shelf, and stacked them on one another.
As I was on my tiptoes trying to get one, a guy offered help (by that point I'd jenga'd one of the lower ones out).
Still, he offered.
For some reason the grocery store put the salt on the highest shelf, and stacked them on one another.
As I was on my tiptoes trying to get one, a guy offered help (by that point I'd jenga'd one of the lower ones out).
Still, he offered.
November 21, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Well, my faith in humanity isn't totally in tatters...
For some reason the grocery store put the salt on the highest shelf, and stacked them on one another.
As I was on my tiptoes trying to get one, a guy offered help (by that point I'd jenga'd one of the lower ones out).
Still, he offered.
For some reason the grocery store put the salt on the highest shelf, and stacked them on one another.
As I was on my tiptoes trying to get one, a guy offered help (by that point I'd jenga'd one of the lower ones out).
Still, he offered.
I just found a lamb shoulder on reduced price! Casa de Cardamom shall dine like royalty tomorrow!
No, idk what it will become yet.
No, idk what it will become yet.
November 21, 2025 at 7:46 PM
I just found a lamb shoulder on reduced price! Casa de Cardamom shall dine like royalty tomorrow!
No, idk what it will become yet.
No, idk what it will become yet.
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Canadian man loses legal battle to keep his secret million-dollar stash - A Canadian man has lost his 16-year legal battle to get back more than $1.2 million he had stored in bizarre locations around his home.
Canadian man loses legal battle to keep his secret million-dollar stash
A Canadian man has lost his 16-year legal battle to get back more than $1.2 million he had stored in bizarre locations around his home.
bit.ly
November 21, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Canadian man loses legal battle to keep his secret million-dollar stash - A Canadian man has lost his 16-year legal battle to get back more than $1.2 million he had stored in bizarre locations around his home.
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X has changed their policy and now you can see where the accounts are based.
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
November 21, 2025 at 6:36 PM
X has changed their policy and now you can see where the accounts are based.
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
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Social media isn’t driving the teenage “loneliness epidemic”. Teenagers’ loneliness was the same in the 1970s,1980s, and 1990s long before anyone heard of TikTok or smartphones.
Social media isn’t driving the teenage “loneliness epidemic”
Teenagers’ loneliness was the same in the 1970s,1980s, and 1990s long before anyone heard of TikTok or smartphones.
mikemales.substack.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Social media isn’t driving the teenage “loneliness epidemic”. Teenagers’ loneliness was the same in the 1970s,1980s, and 1990s long before anyone heard of TikTok or smartphones.
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Some countries yell their way through the world. This year, the world leaned toward the one that did not.
November 21, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Some countries yell their way through the world. This year, the world leaned toward the one that did not.
Me.
November 21, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Me.
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“Search history,” a poem (by me)
How to prepare duck breast
In the fall of democracy,
And protect overwintering bees
And immigrants.
De-icing your freezer
And town square,
And saying what you mean
To get a knee off your chest.
Six ways to make casserole
Without health insurance.
(Cont)
How to prepare duck breast
In the fall of democracy,
And protect overwintering bees
And immigrants.
De-icing your freezer
And town square,
And saying what you mean
To get a knee off your chest.
Six ways to make casserole
Without health insurance.
(Cont)
November 21, 2025 at 12:43 AM
“Search history,” a poem (by me)
How to prepare duck breast
In the fall of democracy,
And protect overwintering bees
And immigrants.
De-icing your freezer
And town square,
And saying what you mean
To get a knee off your chest.
Six ways to make casserole
Without health insurance.
(Cont)
How to prepare duck breast
In the fall of democracy,
And protect overwintering bees
And immigrants.
De-icing your freezer
And town square,
And saying what you mean
To get a knee off your chest.
Six ways to make casserole
Without health insurance.
(Cont)
A sneak peek at tomorrow's column!
Tomorrow at 7:40 am EST (GMT-5)
89.1 FM in Waterloo Region, Guelph, & Wellington County
Or online: buff.ly/2TEPmBp (set region to Kitchener-Waterloo)
Tomorrow at 7:40 am EST (GMT-5)
89.1 FM in Waterloo Region, Guelph, & Wellington County
Or online: buff.ly/2TEPmBp (set region to Kitchener-Waterloo)
November 20, 2025 at 11:00 PM
A sneak peek at tomorrow's column!
Tomorrow at 7:40 am EST (GMT-5)
89.1 FM in Waterloo Region, Guelph, & Wellington County
Or online: buff.ly/2TEPmBp (set region to Kitchener-Waterloo)
Tomorrow at 7:40 am EST (GMT-5)
89.1 FM in Waterloo Region, Guelph, & Wellington County
Or online: buff.ly/2TEPmBp (set region to Kitchener-Waterloo)
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Well put by @drrachelbarr.bsky.social
November 19, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Well put by @drrachelbarr.bsky.social
Reposted by Jasmine Mangalaseril 🧁
Reposted by Jasmine Mangalaseril 🧁
anyone on here closer to the Library of Congress and know whether they are back to processing digitization requests? I get there was a government shutdown but I still haven't managed to get any reply in 3 months. 🥺
I have a digization request for some very old (1890s) klezmer scores from the Library of Congress which hasn't gone anywhere for a month now and I'm curious what's up. So far they haven't responded to any follow-ups. I didn't think they had been hit by DOGE, maybe these scores are just hard to find.
November 20, 2025 at 8:45 PM
anyone on here closer to the Library of Congress and know whether they are back to processing digitization requests? I get there was a government shutdown but I still haven't managed to get any reply in 3 months. 🥺
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An awesome 🧵, especially w/ current fuckery.
Also recommending 4 cookbooks:
* YOU GOTTA EAT by Margaret Eby
* THE SAD BASTARD COOKBOOK by Zilla Novikov and Rachel A Rosen
* THE POORCRAFT COOKBOOK by Iron Circus Comics
* GOOD AND CHEAP by Leanne Brown
Nab from library or get online PDFs if you can.
Also recommending 4 cookbooks:
* YOU GOTTA EAT by Margaret Eby
* THE SAD BASTARD COOKBOOK by Zilla Novikov and Rachel A Rosen
* THE POORCRAFT COOKBOOK by Iron Circus Comics
* GOOD AND CHEAP by Leanne Brown
Nab from library or get online PDFs if you can.
Dear people who may soon suffer food insecurity
Listen up, it super fucking sucks and will do lasting psych damage the rest of your life. This is not a joke or exaggeration. What you have on hand will forever after be a source of anxiety.
SO. To help you in the coming days here's some tips
Listen up, it super fucking sucks and will do lasting psych damage the rest of your life. This is not a joke or exaggeration. What you have on hand will forever after be a source of anxiety.
SO. To help you in the coming days here's some tips
November 1, 2025 at 7:22 PM
An awesome 🧵, especially w/ current fuckery.
Also recommending 4 cookbooks:
* YOU GOTTA EAT by Margaret Eby
* THE SAD BASTARD COOKBOOK by Zilla Novikov and Rachel A Rosen
* THE POORCRAFT COOKBOOK by Iron Circus Comics
* GOOD AND CHEAP by Leanne Brown
Nab from library or get online PDFs if you can.
Also recommending 4 cookbooks:
* YOU GOTTA EAT by Margaret Eby
* THE SAD BASTARD COOKBOOK by Zilla Novikov and Rachel A Rosen
* THE POORCRAFT COOKBOOK by Iron Circus Comics
* GOOD AND CHEAP by Leanne Brown
Nab from library or get online PDFs if you can.
Owner says flags have been left on front lawn of Kitchener home for eight Remembrance Days
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Camera catches mystery man saluting outside home where Canadian flag's been left the last 8 Remembrance Days | CBC News
Every Remembrance Day since Bailey Binns-Franchetto moved into her wartime home in the St. Mary's neighbourhood of Kitchener, Ont., eight years ago, someone has planted a flag on the front lawn. This ...
www.cbc.ca
November 20, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Owner says flags have been left on front lawn of Kitchener home for eight Remembrance Days
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
I need to remember this aesthetic when I'm out researching restaurants and I know the chef/owner is watching.
I do have the expression down pat, though.
I do have the expression down pat, though.
PHOTO OF THE DAY. Sophia Loren trying Whelks in a fish bar, near the River Thames (1960). 📷 Bob Hope and Alisdair MacDonald
November 20, 2025 at 1:44 PM
I need to remember this aesthetic when I'm out researching restaurants and I know the chef/owner is watching.
I do have the expression down pat, though.
I do have the expression down pat, though.
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Bellingcat’s contact email has always been a magnet for people with fairly unusual views; paranoid delusions, sprawling conspiracies, the works. But recently, the pattern has shifted, we’re seeing more and more emails clearly written with ChatGPT.
November 19, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Bellingcat’s contact email has always been a magnet for people with fairly unusual views; paranoid delusions, sprawling conspiracies, the works. But recently, the pattern has shifted, we’re seeing more and more emails clearly written with ChatGPT.
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The painting sold for $575,000. Congratulations to the buyer.
I'm still hoping that the intent is to keep here in Toronto, publicly exhibited as much as possible.
I'm still hoping that the intent is to keep here in Toronto, publicly exhibited as much as possible.
Heads-up! Frederic Marlett Bell-Smith’s 1894 “Lights of a City Street” goes up for auction today at 3:00 PM (Nov 19, 2025).
I hope this painting stays in Toronto and remains on public view.
Auction page: tinyurl.com/575z6jt8
#art #auction #history #torontohistory #toronto #canada #jeremyhopkin
I hope this painting stays in Toronto and remains on public view.
Auction page: tinyurl.com/575z6jt8
#art #auction #history #torontohistory #toronto #canada #jeremyhopkin
November 20, 2025 at 12:10 AM
The painting sold for $575,000. Congratulations to the buyer.
I'm still hoping that the intent is to keep here in Toronto, publicly exhibited as much as possible.
I'm still hoping that the intent is to keep here in Toronto, publicly exhibited as much as possible.
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Do not approach us.
November 20, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Do not approach us.
ICYMI, last week's food column was about local indy food businesses collaborating to come up with 4 delicious ice creams! Really love how this is happening and hope to see more in other areas of our food space 😊
#Foodsky #WaterlooRegion #IceCream
You can listen here: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
#Foodsky #WaterlooRegion #IceCream
You can listen here: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
November 20, 2025 at 12:00 AM
ICYMI, last week's food column was about local indy food businesses collaborating to come up with 4 delicious ice creams! Really love how this is happening and hope to see more in other areas of our food space 😊
#Foodsky #WaterlooRegion #IceCream
You can listen here: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
#Foodsky #WaterlooRegion #IceCream
You can listen here: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...