Jasmine Mangalaseril 🧁

Canadian freelance food writer + columnist | communications strategist | culinary communications lecturer | promiscuous eater | informed | effervescent | cat pillow | equal opportunity buttertartist with an art history degree

#Foodways #FoodHistory #FoodWriting #RestaurantWriter #PR #Branding #WaterlooRegion

Bylines include: Waterloo Region Record, Grand Magazine, Toronto.com

Header image: Hip, hip, hurra! Kunstnerfest på Skagen by Peder Severin Krøyer. 1888.

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2024-08-24 15:10:12

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@npub1sfl…gczt What happened?

2024-08-13 22:10:30

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@npub1sfl…gczt My vocab is a mishmosh of everything. We can say takeaway, takeout, to-go here and people know what it means.

2024-08-13 22:06:26

Waiting for my takeaway. A woman is trying to introduce her elder relative to food that wasn’t here 60, 70 yrs ago. She convinced him to have more than just bread. I feel that is a win.

2024-08-11 02:37:31

More AI transcription adventures!
Interviewee was talking about botanicals.
AI transcript came back with...
Battalion tentacles.
I am now thinking of The Curse of the Black Spot Doctor Who, but with a gaggle of krakens...
Now I kinda want calamari...
#FoodWriting

2024-07-13 16:47:38

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@npub1sfl…gczt Could you imagine Meta doing that? Apart from all the ad revenue from scammers drying up, they’d have to deal with the issue of all the stolen work used to program their AI.

2024-06-08 00:06:12

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@npub1sfl…gczt You know...I am so tired, I thought "pasta hot takes" was "pasta hot bakes" and I got a wee bit excited.

2024-05-11 23:08:56

Got permission to share this here. Yukon folks who've lost telecom access, but have cell access, CBC and CKRW are broadcasting. You can also find updates here (if the system isn't down):
https://yukon.ca/emergencies
#Canada #Yukon #YukonWildFire
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2024-03-07 21:43:42

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@npub1sfl…gczt It is so lovely! Congratulations :)

2024-02-24 03:04:29

Fantastic news.
"(Pharmacare) Deal sets out pharmacare framework and will cover contraception, diabetes treatment."...
"Singh said the legislation "clearly points to [a] single payer" system and includes references to the Canada Health Act, the federal legislation that sets out the terms under which the federal government agrees to fund medicare services in Canada."
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/liberals-ndp-pharmacare-deal-1.7123952

2024-02-18 04:47:16

Rufus takes pickle guarding very seriously.
#Caturday #catsofmastodon
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2024-02-14 00:59:11

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@npub1sfl…gczt Of course they do, because you are.

2024-02-10 21:20:51

More adventures with my parents' bank.
Surly, condescending tellers, timewasting error-prone personal banker at their home branch v lovely, helpful tellers; kind personal banker who reviewed everything on the fly (& CONFIRMED I AM CORRECT) at branch by me.
Nearby branch guy got everything sorted without fuss or muss.
It was suggested I avoid their home branch when I need go get things done. You don't need to tell me twice.

2023-11-11 22:02:27

Well, I guess I won’t be doing any work right now. This laptop doesn’t seem to want to call up files or let me do some research. It just sits here, emitting a purr-like hum.
#Cats #Caturday #CatsOfMastodon
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2023-10-26 19:02:11

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@npub1sfl…gczt
Hello, Inteviewer? I'm a Canadian strategic communications consultant, specialising in regulated industry with oodles of crisis comms and international M&A experience. She knows what she's doing, was my first Mastodon friend, and she tolerates my cat posts. Hire her!
(I can get that translated into French, if you want)

2023-10-26 17:01:05

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@npub1sfl…gczt
Open here I flung the window shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter,
In there stepped a stately squirrel of the saintly days of yore;
Not the least obeisance made he; not a minute stopped or stayed he;
But, with mien of lord or lady, perched below my kitchen door—
Perched upon a stone slab just below my kitchen door—
Perched, and sat, and nothing more.

2023-09-26 00:50:52

If you're a published author and you haven't given permission for your book to be fed into Meta's, Bloomberg's or other AI training systems, please check the database in this article. If your work is there, you may want to join in on the lawsuit. This corpus has 183,000 (pirated) titles.
#AI #Bookstodon #Books #Meta #Bloomberg #Authors
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/09/books3-database-generative-ai-training-copyright-infringement/675363/

2023-09-25 03:52:27

After five days of negotiations with studios and streaming services, WGA says it has an ‘exceptional’ deal for members to vote on
#WGAStrike #PayTheWriter
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/sep/25/hollywood-writers-strike-end-wga-deal-details-negotiations

2023-08-15 16:59:31

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@npub1k4q…3lsq I think with such folks, it was always there and they let themselves be open to developing it.
Seeing it with a bunch of ex-colleagues who all moved to the *same company* While at our company they were lovely, but within a year of moving jobs, they started turning and began posting really hateful things.

2023-08-15 16:53:19

Eeep. A friend of mine's former client (an important one that got their career rolling) was indicted yesterday. When the indicted person was a client, they were, ummm, decent, but apparently since then drank too much of the Kool-Aid.

2023-08-11 03:13:55

To quote Duran Duran, "Is there anyone out there?"
And while the deep-space picture is stunning, it’s a giant cosmic question mark that appears in the background that has everyone, ahem, asking questions.
#JWST #questionmarkinspace #Astronomy
https://globalnews.canews/9882917/james-webb-question-mark/

2023-08-04 19:45:06

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@npub1fgl…4jl4 My language was definitely unladylike, lol.

2023-08-04 17:21:50

Well, that was fun.
Popped out to the shops.
On return, the guy next to me had an issue with me getting the advanced green (in a turning lane) and decided he (not in a turning lane) deserved it.
He sped to get into my lane *as I was turning.* Missed colliding cms, only because my reflexes & brakes are as good as they are.
Idiot manchild sped up and took off, turning onto the expressway.
Couldn't get a plate number. But then again, doubtful anything would happen to him.

2023-06-14 17:09:28

BCE Inc. is cutting 1,300 positions and closing or selling nine radio stations as the company plans to significantly adapt how it delivers the news. The eliminated positions include a six per cent cut at Bell Media.
#journalism #Media #CanadianMedia #Canada
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/bce-layoffs-radio-1.6876075

2023-06-01 19:46:11

Reviewing an AI transcript from an interview. He's definitely in a mood.
That programmer is still into the smoky eye look. What that has to do with flavouring food, I haven't a clue.
Also...he's inserting (erm) spicy wording.
Good gravy.

2023-05-20 19:44:42

Meanwhile, Rufus is hard at work, Caturdaying.
#Cats #CatsOfMastodon #Caturday #RescueCats
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2023-04-29 00:49:04

Also, I was made to feel like my manager needed to discuss my performance as of late.
#Cats #CatsOfMastodon
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