I remember Poorman! I loved their on-air chemistry and thought Dr. Drew seemed reasonable. I was pretty young then, jr. high and high school, and Dr. Drew seemed quite reasonable and low-key, but maybe he was already obnoxious and judgmental and I just didn't notice it?

Wrote a long reply that was dashed by the internet gods. Long story short: Colonial Spanish rule decreed the use of indigenous garb, including distinctive dress in each village, to tell people apart and label the indigenous from the mestizo populations. Now this clothing, a sign of colonial rule, has been…

Ha! I feel your pain because I know whereof you speak. I'm a full pantry kind of cook and my fridge and cupboards are ridiculous.

This is my go-to method when I don't have buttermilk. Also, you can add some plain yogurt to milk for a buttermilk substitute. A plain milk for buttermilk substitution might fall flat in some recipes, but lemon-milk or yogurt-milk has enough acid to react to the baking soda to function like buttermilk.

Keep it in an airtight container in the freezer next time.

Yes, this really works! You covered all the points, but for those considering doing this, let me stress that you need to rinse your hair daily in the shower. You give the scalp a good massage under running water and you won't get an itchy scalp. I started doing this over ten (maybe fifteen?) years ago following the…

The answer to that question is multifaceted. Why the Indian princess story, why always in the distant past, why oh why? Part of it has to do with masculinist perceptions of conquered people. If you can think about a pairing of royals (to forge alliances), the sublimated or subsumed person is feminized. Why isn’t the…

These are good suggestions. I find that starting with oil packed tuna boosts the flavor significantly.

Oh my, that sounds just horrible. I’m curious to know if that law came as a response to all the horrors of the dirty war, when children of the “disappeared” were “adopted” by right-wing officials. I did a quick online search just now and found some real horror stories about birth mothers seeking bribes to not reclaim…

Ha! Okay, I concede. But they can be time consuming. I had a roommate who, when I first moved into our shared house, said: "I make the best enchiladas. I start by making my own tortillas . . . yada yada yada." We lived together for seven years, and in all that time, she never had the energy to make those enchiladas.…

Good to know, thanks!

Why do people have such a hard time understanding corn tortillas? And yes, the store-bought ones are perfectly fine and even preferable to handmade for certain things. If they've been in the package, and you've had it one, two, even three weeks you just take them out and heat them either on an cast iron comal or…

I used to have the second kind, the maintenance insomnia. A friend suggested Nighty Night tea (just looked it up online and Amazon has a very good price on a six-pack of boxes), and from day one I started sleeping through the night. One caveat, though, is that drinking a big hot mug of tea right before bed will make…

Yes, warm body-temperature water makes the experience pleasant. Also, my dentist suggested adding a tablespoon or so of Listerine to the water.

Yes, warm body-temperature water makes the experience pleasant. Also, my dentist suggested adding a tablespoon or so…

Odd. My husband, who's Jewish, was married in a Catholic Church to his first wife. They never annulled it when they divorced. He and I had a hippy dippy wedding out in nature, so I guess I'm living in sin.

Interesting that people stick with one sauce. I keep at least a half dozen different shelf-stable hot sauces on hand because each one has a different flavor profile. You have to have the right sauce for different foods. Tapatio is definitely best for eggs. Of course, if I’ve made my own, that takes precedence.

There's a line in The House of Mirth where Lily Bart decides she will no longer cry because it isn't a flattering look for her. I guess Kim K. isn't familiar with the work of Edith Wharton.

If you’re looking for specific grains as rice substitutes, just try stuff like quinoa, mushed up wheat berries, etc.

I've read that organic rice from California is some of the least arsenic-y of samples tested. When feeding my son I found it very easy to skip the whole ground grains phase and just jumped into introducing real food that we were eating.

Yes, this happened to my brother in law. The allergy has disappeared and now he can eat anything.