Khalid El Khatib
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I wrote about making hummus in Iowa where I grew up. Read about relationship to Arabic food and how it gives me hope.
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Weather app: Rain expected for the next 6.5 hours.
Me:
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My mom’s annual “home for the holidays” email to me and my siblings just dropped. An incredibly thorough, detail-rich look ahead at how it’s possible for me to gain 15 lbs in one week.
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“Are you feeling rested after the long weekend??”
Me:
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Me, in six weeks, talking about the plant in my living room.
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It’s illegal to be gay in 73 countries.
You can be fired for being LGBTQ in 26 states.
46% of US workers are closeted at work; 76% of workers globally.
Trans POC are being murdered every month; young queer people are dying by suicide.
But get those Pride clicks,
@TheAtlantic
!
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I love baking in the toaster oven because I can make the perfect serving size for someone who lives alone: six cookies.
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A young man sitting on the subway is making small talk with whoever sits next to him, complimenting their clothes, etc. I’ve never seen New Yorkers so taken aback. I can’t look away.
He HAS to be from the Midwest.
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It’s very funny, very heartwarming, and a little insane that an email my mom has been sending me and my sisters for 10+ Christmases is now hotly anticipated by countless strangers. Anyways, here are some highlights from this year’s itinerary!!
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Me wandering around my mom’s house after eating a 5,000 calorie dinner.
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This is taking off; my mom will be thrilled. I should note I cut off the part of the email where she asks if she should make a "butter board" and for us to vote on homemade Snickers, blueberry or raspberry cheesecake on Christmas.
Nothing to promote - just have a Happy Holidays!
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Just called my mom to discuss the tweet; she loves it. She’s been reading all of the replies (“oh no, don’t ever do that,” I said). Here’s us last Christmas — her wearing her trademark jingle bell, me drinking from a Santa goblet.
2022 Iowa Christmas content commences 12/18. ❤️
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My mom's Christmas email made it around the world faster than Santa, and now everyone wants to come over. There are two ways in: if you're Ina Garten or by marrying me (my mom and both my sisters are taken).
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Joe Biden is winning by over FOUR MILLION votes. That’s the population of Wyoming, Vermont, Alaska, North AND South Dakota combined. Also the number of brain cells I’ve lost since Tuesday.
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For those you asking, here is the rest of the absolutely unhinged Christmas Day menu (a day in which I always slip into a food coma and then my mom yells at me for falling asleep and “wasting Christmas”).
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Idea for a themed dinner party: I invite friends over for dinner, it’s State of the Union themed, and I speak on everything I’ve done over the last year for a full two hours while some of my friends clap and others boo. The ones who boo don’t get dessert.
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When people say, “Why don’t you go back to Gaza and see what happens to you, a gay man?” It’s like, well, I’ve tried three times! I haven’t been to the place my dad was born since 1997. My travel either restricted by the Israeli gov’t or canceled due to regional violence.
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Overheard someone at the bar talking about Kate Middleton and joined their conversation.
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Reconfirming this week’s menu for a third time before going to the grocery store for the 10th time. Also, yes — she hand sewed (all but two of) the stockings.
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Every December my mom and her bf make hundreds of cookies & treats and package them on trays, of which there’s an unlimited supply around our house. 🫃🏻
My fav are Oreo balls (so simple): Oreo + cream cheese combined & rolled out, set in freezer, coated in white chocolate. 🤌
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My mom wanted to record a message for those who have followed along with us this Christmas. It came out looking half like a promo for a Hallmark movie, half like a hostage video.
Merry Christmas again!!!
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I’m gay and I’m bad at neatly wrapping presents. We exist.
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Merry Christmas, everyone!!! I couldn’t fit Santa’s full impact into the frame (it’s my mom’s first year with a grandbaby; the floor is completely covered.) Mimosas now, breakfast at 10am. Watch this space…
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I was outside shoveling snow and three neighbors walked by separately and made the exact same joke: “Was this on your mom’s itinerary?”
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For all the representation
#AndJustLikeThat
strived to achieve, I most saw myself in Samantha Jones—the friend who exists only over text and replies sporadically with one sentence max.
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If you were to tell a young version of me that the reason I’d one day make the front page of my local Iowa paper was because my mom is obsessed with Christmas, I’d say, “Hm, yeah — sounds about right.”
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We’ve arrived at the “Hallmark of the Midwest”. Thank you
@VisitGalenaOrg
for the welcome basket!! Grabbing lunch, some pastries, and saying hi to every stranger I walk past as if I’m literally a main character in a Hallmark movie.
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My AirPods suddenly disconnected while I was on the treadmill and everyone near me got to hear that I was going hard (9 MPH) to Stockard Channing’s “There Are Worse Things I Could Do” from Grease. Embarrass.
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I’ve gotten so many amazing DMs about my mom this week, but this is among my favorites—from someone who worked at Staples and helped her send me and my sisters care packages for every imaginable holiday over the last 15 years. She really is the angel she’s been painted out to be.
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My 77 year old father lives in one of the Florida counties where vaccines are first-come, first-serve through Eventbrite. He's no technophile, so I'm out here like a dad trying to get his kid a ticket to a One Direction concert except, you know, life or death stuff. America!
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It’s here: my mom’s Christmas itinerary has arrived in my inbox. I’ll share tonight.
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If we’re following the Hallmark holiday movie playbook: I need to leave NYC and fall in love with an Iowan who reintroduces me to the magic of Christmas, like a dairy farmer who makes the world’s best eggnog. Also, because there appears to be some confusion, I’m gay. 😂
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You can condemn Trump’s relationship with Putin without making a gay joke.
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Farewell, Iowa! Things I’m bringing back to NYC with me: my mom’s generosity of spirit, ambitions to host NYC’s largest-ever euchre tournament, four bags of caramel-coated puffed popcorn, and 36 packets of Happy Joe’s taco sauce.
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“Southwest night” is about to kick off with taco dip, margaritas, and, of course, various cookies and candies. I keep sneaking Doritos as my mom yells at me to wait for guests to arrive (it’s easy to sneak food though — you can hear her coming because of the bell.)
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My mom was feeling ahead of schedule (the table is *already* set for Christmas breakfast and I’m making the lasagna tonight) so we were released to do something “off itinerary”: grab a craft beer at Dimensional Brewery in downtown Dubuque.
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Dinner is beef tenderloin, roasted veggies, twice baked potatoes, and the mushroom cheese bread my mom has made all my life including for every birthday and prom dinner. When I moved to NYC, I started making it for dinner parties. Whenever someone has it, they request the recipe.
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Little smokies prepared two ways, baked spinach artichoke dip, a butter board (lol) with fresh butter from Wisconsin, a cheese board with fresh Iowa cheese from Lost Lake Farm, baked brie, shrimp cocktail, and cookies and candies (not pictured).
Give her a Michelin star!!
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It’s party night (what blizzard?). Just had old fashioneds at The Riverboat Lounge in the Julien, which my mom says are the best in town. Up next: the bourbon tasting. It’s all happening.
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The PBS producer asked my mom if she could make “one or two snacks” for this Christmas segment, but my mom said that wouldn’t be an authentic representation so here we are.
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Personal trainer: what are your transformation goals over the next three months?
Me, holding up my phone: transform me into this.
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My mom got donuts from Hy-Vee this morning. She meant to go yesterday but said she was too excited to drive after meeting Hoda.
Fueling up before heading to Galena (and home before tonight’s snowstorm).
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At 14 in Iowa I wrote in my diary about how I’d marry a woman and “make it work”. I’d practice deepening my voice to be bullied less. I’d tell my parents I was hanging with friends and ride my bike alone for hours because no one would hang with me.
20 years later, I’m here.
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Changed out of my “TV clothes” into Chicago Bulls sweatpants I got when I was 10 so I’m ready for “summer night”: burgers, fries, and Ina’s mac & cheese (featuring $38 worth of cheese, my mom says). We’ll wrap with Culver’s frozen custard. It’s 8 degrees but we commit to the bit.
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My dad and I ordered Italian for dinner. I didn’t realize my entree came with pasta and salad so I ordered a side pasta and salad, and when it arrived… I ate both salads and both pastas. It’s time to go back to New York.
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It’s my last night in Iowa before spending a few days in Chicago with my dad. Filling up on cookies like a bear going into hibernation for winter, and closing out the trip with the most Iowa activity you can do: playing Euchre.
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Ina Garten’s lasagna became our Christmas Eve tradition seven years ago. It’s amazing, easy enough to make, and even better the next day (except there’s always too much “new food” for leftovers). And bonus: the basil & parsley in the red sauce are very Christmasy.
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My mom met her hero,
@hodakotb
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Took Al Roker’s spot doing the weather.
Elizabeth Debicki told my mom she was a fan.
And introduced the
@TODAYshow
crew to puffed popcorn…
… all before 9:30am.
10/10 morning!!!!
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🚨 my mom is visiting NYC next month 🚨
She just booked her flight; my work on HER itinerary commences tomorrow.
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I’m committed to maximizing every inch of my small new apartment so I’m especially proud of this organizer I installed in narrow space in my laundry closet. Please clap!! And standing ovation because it’s 78” inches tall and I carried it 8 stops on a crowded subway.
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A hot man at Whole Foods told me that my phone flashlight was on.
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Made it to the Motherland.
(Yes, she’s wearing her jingle bell.)
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Everyone else brought a variation of chips and salsa, I brought this.
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The woman next to me on this airplane with her 9:30am red wine.
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My "neighbor" just buzzed and said there was a package for me at her apartment. I followed her to get it, barefoot, assuming she lived next door and... she lived two blocks away. Barefoot in Brooklyn for two city blocks. I'll never be clean again.
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My mom said “gay rights!” but also forgot what year it is.
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That’s a wrap on Iowa!
✔️ 8 days of itinerary items
✔️ Gained 7.4 lbs
✔️ And most importantly, raised $27K to aid refugees in Gaza
A success! Thanks for following along, and happy holidays!!
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I’ve arrived in the Midwest! Driving to Dubuque from O’Hare. I spent so much of this week hyping how charming it is that I nearly forgot how cold it gets. 12 degrees today and a *high* of 1 degree on Christmas — in an act of radical self-care, I’m getting Culver’s for lunch.
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Omg
@HappyJoesPizza
just surprised me with four frozen taco pizzas, their trademark taco chips, and a metric ton of taco sauce!!! I feel like how those people on the old Publishers Clearing House commercials felt when they opened their door to the huge check.
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Me: I’ve always loved this song.
Young friend: Same, it’s from TikTok.
Me:
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My mom’s itinerary for the 4th of July week hit my inbox today and it’s so insane that I actually called gyms in my hometown to see if I could join for a week. In addition to a 4th of July themed menu, there’s a Gay Pride night (rainbow Funfetti cake), and also…
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Good morning. The man in front of me at the deli just ordered a cinnamon raisin bagel toasted, extra lettuce and tomato, and lox.
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Look who’s here!! Off to have a celebratory glass of wine at one of my favorite wine bars and then it’s early to bed —
@TODAYshow
tomorrow!!!
(She’s examining all of my totes to see which is big enough to transport all of the puffed popcorn she made.)
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I’ve bought fresh flowers every Saturday for a couple of months now, but I maybe went a bit too hard at the flower shop today.
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The eating marathon begins — Christmas morning breakfast.
Egg bake w/ cheese & sausage
Hash browns w/ onions
French toast bake
Fresh fruit
Bacon
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As someone who currently lives in the pizza capital of America I’m well-positioned to say
@HappyJoesPizza
is the best pizza in the country. And to anyone about to reply to tell me lettuce & tortilla chips don’t belong on pizza: I’ve heard it before, and you’re WRONG!!!
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So many strangers watching everything we eat and also this inflatable penguin which my mom turns on every night after dark with a tiny remote control.
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Instead of the post-holiday small talk at the start of work calls where everyone asks what you did over break, everyone just asked about my mom. (They all know exactly what I did every single day, including what I ate.)
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Coming up with an elaborate excuse to cancel on plans because we, as a society, haven’t yet normalized “I don’t want to go.”
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What happens to a mom whose obsessed with holidays when the holidays end?
She takes the Christmas decals off the windows and pivots to putting all of her energy into celebrating her favorite son’s birthday (which is still two weeks away but she’ll be focused on all month).
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It can both be true that Melania’s complicity is evil and that she hates her husband.
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In a car home, haven’t eaten anything in 5 hours, and my body has no idea what’s happening after two weeks in the Midwest. The noises my stomach are making sound like screams. I was going to have a salad for dinner, but it looks like I’m going to have to ease back in. (Pizza.)
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After tons of photos of puffed popcorn, taco dip and other Iowa delicacies, here’s some Palestinian food from one of my favorite restaurants in Brooklyn. ❤️
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You can take the boy out of Iowa, but then he will be invited to a New Year’s Eve dinner party in New York where people will have seen the food his mom served and they will force him to bring some Iowa flair to the dinner party.
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My Chris Evans story is one time I was on a date and Chris was on a date at the very small table about 10 inches from me, and I didn’t listen to a single word my date said over the course of those 3 drinks.
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Christmas breakfast: caramel rolls stuffed with cream cheese, bacon, hash browns, fruit, and omelets — you know what, just check out this custom menu my mom printed (and made me fill out last night like room service at a hotel).
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Nonstop turbulence; a screaming toddler on one side of me; and a man who said, “Let me ask you something: do you know what the blockchain is?” immediately after we sat down…
My last flight of 2022 is testing me.
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I’m not a food photographer, so I’m not sure I did chili night justice… supplementing the dinner pic with dessert: Culver’s frozen custard and a homemade ginger snap cookie from a friend.
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As this tweet picks up steam here’s what I want to promote: vote in EVERY election, and follow local races.
The narrative above only changes if we vote out anti-LGBTQ politicians at EVERY level, especially in cities and states.
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Cooking for myself at the start of quarantine vs. what I’m eating now
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Every time my mom experiences a big trip or milestone she makes a photo book (eg when my sister had her bachelorette while I had my appendix out, and there’s pics of them partying while I’m in a sweatsuit half dead).
The book from her NYC just arrived; it doesn’t disappoint.
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For my first night home and the last night of Pride month my mom made me a little cake. 🌈 Shitty day so far as gay rights go, but we press forward.
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Someone just asked if I was free for a call at 6:30pm tonight, a Friday.
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Took the afternoon off to be productive, put on sweatpants, did nothing.
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Three things in life are certain: death, taxes, and when I’m in Iowa I’ll post a pic of Happy Joe’s taco pizza and people on Twitter will tell me it’s bad to eat lettuce on pizza and they will be DEAD WRONG.
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Putting the finishing touches on the itinerary for my mom’s visit this weekend. I’ll post the whole thing after she leaves, but here’s a teaser…
(And yes, my mom is absolutely freaking out.)
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I just got a new rug and it’s leaning in the hallway and I came out of my bedroom, forgot it was there, thought it was a person and screamed.
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Me hiring private security to intercept random people from crashing my family’s Christmas now that our itinerary is in the public domain
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I’m not sure what people imagined when they read “bourbon tasting” but it is well-organized and it is intense.
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It’s my mom’s last night in NYC so I obviously had to take her to my favorite spot: al Badawi for Palestinian.
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Folks will be pleased to hear I booked a trip back to Iowa for the 4th of July and my mom’s itinerary-building has already begun.
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So happy to be in Iowa to spend my mom’s birthday with her, for the first time in over 15 years! And just as happy that we don’t look too much older than we did 15 years ago. 😌
Happy Birthday to the best mom in the world!!!
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Every time someone in Iowa hears I’m visiting from NYC and remarks “Yikes, seems bad there,” it takes all of my self-control to not give a full “Okay, I see. You think this has nothing to do with you.” speech.
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Made it to Galena (“the Hallmark of the Midwest”). Now watch this space while I eat everything.
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