Everyone is an outsider until they're an insider: A theory on food media
by Daniel Hernandez, Los Angeles Times
Jan 16, 2023
4 minutes
One of the most valuable things I learned in college was how to uncork a bottle of wine. But it was a lesson that happened at great expense — my utter humiliation.
Sophomore year. First off-campus apartment. Found a roommate who was, refreshingly, enrolled at the local community college and not at stressed-out Cal like me. One evening in our kitchen, I admitted that I didn't know how to use a corkscrew bottle opener. She laughed in my face — chortled with glee, more like it.
"You don't?"
How the hell should I? I was just 19. There were no courses available for this task in the UC apparatus at the time — at least that I . Chastened,
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