But getting rid of black plastic kitchen utensils is a low-stakes move, and worth it. Cooking with any plastic is a dubious enterprise, because heat encourages potentially harmful plastic compounds to migrate out of the polymers and potentially into the food. But, as Andrew Turner, a biochemist at the University of Plymouth

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• 🥐 We went to Mokichi in Chigasaki for lunch over the weekend. I've talked about it before, but they took an old brewery, did it and the immediately surrounding buildings up  real nice with great lighting and food, and every time I visit there I think "man, I wish my house was this cozy".  I try to de-construct why it is and I always reach the same conclusion: wood, warm yellow lighting, and not covered with kids things.
  
  I had a choco-corone (a bread filled with chocolate creme) from the bakery and it was incredible. It was the first time I've felt like I could really taste the quality of the ingredients in the creme. No xanthan gum up in there faking textures.
• 🎌 The LDP got a shellacking in the snap election. I don't remember much from my Japanese politics classes in uni, but they aren't my favorite party (I don't follow closely enough to have a team (and I can't vote anyways)) , but I know who it's not.
• 🎃 The cafe next to a park in our neighborhood had a small Halloween event. We stumbled upon it last year or year before. This time Leo came prepared with a vampire cape and a mask we made from a paper bowl (we cut eye and mouth holes from it). Kids are supposed to run around the park and find the passphrase (give me candy, not trick-or-treat) to get some treats. It feels wrong to forgo the threat of a trick and all demand...
• 🎒 I've got a work trip coming up very soon. Beyond flying, it will involve some train travel, so I decided that rather than my huge duffel bag, I want to carry a backpack. I bought a proper backpacking backpack in 2009 for "myself", but the only person that's used it was my wife during a month long trip to India in grad school. Finally my turn to use it and...the water resistant coating on the inside has dried and is flaking off 🫠. I think I got it all off and washed. Excited to finally use it...even if it took me...15 years.