June 27, 2013: MasterChef screws up macarons! Let’s all chip in and get the Golden Boy something nice!

Dear Gordon Ramsay, Joe Bastianich, and Gordon Elliot,

THIS -

- is a macaroon, while THIS -

  – is a macaron.

MACAROON -

MACARON -

They are two strikingly different desserts in terms of taste, texture, and appearance.  I can cut a fledgling home cook some slack for getting the two confused, but you guys should really know better.

Alright.  Now that that’s out of the way, I need your help.  Next weekend, I’ll be heading down to L.A. to help celebrate Golden Boy Martin Gero’s birthday by eating all of his food, getting really drunk, and cooking his throw pillows in his back yard pizza oven.  In addition, I’ d like to get him a gift.  I know, I know.  My presence should more than suffice and, while true, I thought it would be nice to get him something anyway.  But what?  Presumably, if he really wanted something, he’d already have it.  So what do you get a guy who has everything he seemingly needs?  Simple.  You get him something he doesn’t know he wants.  So, in your opinion, what would that be?

 Look at him, all suave and relaxed, dressed like a hit man in some British indie gangster flick.  What do you get someone like this?

 Do you think he’s already got one of these?

Or one of these?

Or maybe something for his dog -

Weigh in with your suggestions!

Thanks to PBMom for the update on Woody’s son: “The transplant surgery was a success and now they wait and hope it takes (i.e., there is no transplant rejection) and he does well on the immunosuppression therapy.”  Great to hear

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