This was only 10 or so years after America had a literal witch-hunt and devil-worshiping hysteria that was a thinly veiled panic over mothers going to work and not being at home to protect their children.

Make no mistake, the reason more people didn’t vote for her in ‘16 is that they were still pissed about the cookie bakeoff.

Make your own vanilla extract using bourbon. The best of both worlds.

Back in the days of government commodity food, someone in my family would always end up with a few quarts of honey. A few women in my family would get together in my mom’s kitchen chatting and laughing while my mom dropped bits of the confection into water until it reached the right hardness. Then we would all pull…

Now I am wondering when shortening was invented. I would have guessed that the first recipe was the newer one because of the shortening.

Smokey hard liquor and beer are trendy right now. I know it is a huge financial risk for the wine makers, but I would definitely try a smokey red. It seems like it would pair great with ribeye.

Now I am having flashbacks to when I lived in New Orleans. Our only car was in the shop so we couldn’t evacuate. My MIL showed up on the doorstep of our 1 bedroom apartment to ride out the storm a few hours before it was suppose to hit (evacuating takes a long time, which is why most people don’t do it) with her…

As someone who has tried to do embroidery but didn’t stick with it because I couldn’t find anything modern to learn from, I say this is cool as hell. That is some inspired art.

My dad is a boomer, and he will tell you that they didn’t have meat at most meals because they couldn’t afford it. Also, his mother worked and supported his lazy, abusive stepfather. The era republicans idolize was a nightmare for a lot of people.

Now I am picturing her sitting in a chair behind them, smiling beatifically when she thinks the camera is on her, and scowling at Harris for daring to be non-white and a woman and have a career and have opinions when she thinks the camera is not on her.

Preferably a lake full of acid mine drainage from the coal mines he loves so much.

It is also possible that a worker in China who was sick or carrying the virus contaminated the food after it arrived there and rather that be punished for it (food tampering in China carries the death penalty) an alternative explanation was found.

I used to work at a place that, all other horrendous aspects aside, had unlimited sick days, and as long as you didn’t get too carried away they didn’t hold it against you. (For example, when I had been out of work for a week with the flu, I came back and my boss sent me home because he thought I still seemed too sick…

I used to have a dog who loved spicy food, although I hadn’t realized it. She was also a garbage hound and would open the kitchen door and lift the lid on the garbage can to get to it.  One day, I sprinkled a liberal dose of cayenne powder on the garbage in an act of desperation.  It was clearly the best tasting…

That is excellent advice.  My husband has lost more than 50 lbs by doing this, but he also made walking the dog a couple miles a day part of it.

I have gotten lazy and only run and bike a few miles a week, but when I was doing ultramarathons and long triathlons (half and full), eating before exercise was a specific part of race training because I would need to eat up to a couple thousand calories during races. I could eat things like chili, tacos, or lasagna,…

Atlas Obscura has derailed me many times.  They are even worse than the Smithsonian for rabbit holes.

That scheme goes back decades.  When I moved from Wyoming, I had a problem getting a couple of bars to accept that my ID was real because of it.

The law requires they card anyone who looks under 35, but many stores have policies that everyone gets carded without exception because they want to create good habits in their employees and don’t get into legal trouble.

It varies by location, store policy, and how old the clerk thinks you are. I live in PA, and I have found that grocery stores have policies that you can’t buy wine or beer without a scanable ID, but the state liquor stores don’t even card me for the hard stuff. Of course, when my 65 year old mother comes to visit, she…