We are finally in the 'eat like you're going into hibernation' season. This means that the nutritional values are plummeting, the portions are getting larger, and many people are spending more time than usual in the kitchen. Few things work up an appetite like the cold, which can sometimes lead to culinary greatness and other times, excesses that would have best been avoided. Nonetheless, apart from the very worst kitchen failures all of these creations do an admirable job of providing us sustenance, as well as encouraging us to brush up on our cooking skills. It also gives us yet another excuse to look at cooking memes, which emphasize how important we find food and the preparation of it. The world would be a boring place if we all had the same palate, not least because we wouldn't have half as many silly memes about the things that we cook.