Here you go—grand marnier-spiced pain d'epice cookies from Gourmet. There is some regular flour in it, but the main flour is rye. There also various cookies using rye made by the Scandanavians.

Ah, Zorro—"There is no crime in being poor, only in dressing poorly!"

But you don't want it simply tender. Your crust is supposed to be a balance between tender and crispy/flaky. There's a difference between a crumb crust and a traditional crust.

I love that video. I love David Bowie for being an old guy who continues to make weird things. I love Tilda Swinton for being middle-aged and insanely cool to the point where you can't think of her as middle-aged; she's just Tilda.

I'm surprised that I've actually seen a number of these—including Andy Warhol's Dracula—which, yes, has a ton of nudity and is really weird, but nonetheless really boring to watch. Taught me a lot about the importance in film of A) pacing and B) acting.

I saw it during its original run—on my own and with no idea what it was about. It had gotten a good review and I was into seeing weird movies at that time. Ending was a total shocker because I didn't even know I was seeing a horror movie.

Not pie crust. Pie crust is all about the gluten and the shortening.

I have a killer recipe for cookies with rye flour—very light and crisp. Edge is dipped into white chocolate and topped with a bit candied citrus. But it's like anything else, you gotta respect the flavors of the ingredients.

Thank you. I'll be scanning my lentils pre-cooking.

Okay, I didn't need to know that about lentils. I'm going to try and forget I know that so I can eat lentil soup again.

My kid tried to convince me of that—said the fried crickets weren't bad at all—she ate them in science class—more than one—but I can't get over the little spindly leg part.

Yes, yes, yes to Kindred—and get the rest of Octavia Butler's work out there.

Read Kindred. It's not a torture-porn book—it's much more about the moral quandaries of slavery and, as always, with Butler an unsentimental look at the real dynamics of power. It gets at reality of slavery in a way that I've seen little else do. Butler was smart—she gets why and how people would survive in an…

I think To Say Nothing of the Dog could be well-adopted by the Brits. It's not dependent on CGI for the most part, but the comedy between the characters and a love of that Victoriana that the British already have.

Yeah, I think it's not in the first book—in fact, I don't think Carey had come up with it at that point, given that Phedre's mother seems to have gotten pregnant a second time without intention (given that they're too broke to handle one kid, let alone two.) So, I think the whole intentional pregnancy is a bit of a…

I'd assume the idea is to get animal protein into the diet, since humans don't ingest vegetable proteins as efficiently and a pure vegan diet is a bit low on some nutrients.

Ah, I'm not sure that's in the first book—or maybe I missed it. How convenient—much easier to be sex-positive if accidental pregnancy is an impossibility. Overall, I consider that a weakness in the book, though I suppose that it also explains the lack of periods too.

Oh, yes, definitely. Sally looks like she walked out of my brother's high-school yearbook. Of all the outfits, hers gave me the biggest flashback.

Trudy for the win. There should always be more Trudy. I want Trudy grinding Pete into the ground in one of her fabulous pre-burbs outfits. With a hat.

Which is an improvement for Pegs. She'll never get the hair right, but her clothing's definitely been getting better.