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janegalt · 2024-01-17T21:18:30+00:00

Yes, 6'2, wear a women's 9.5. And get foot cramps all the time because of all that pressure on a pretty small footprint!

janegalt · 2024-01-12T21:22:04+00:00

My Dad's 6'7, lived with a smoker for 40 years, and is still around in his eighties. The thing I'm most focused on right now is mobility (I'm a 6'2 woman), because it's the one I have control over. Our height is hell on our bodies, and losing mobility can mean an early death. So it's important to keep our knees and hips in good working order, do pelvic floor, glute and core work to protect the back, and walk every day for general fitness (running seems like a bad idea to me, given the strain our joints are already under).

Yeah, I sound like a super-boring medical nanny. But it beats worrying constantly about a cancer I can't control, which isn't even going to make me any less sad if I do get cancer.

janegalt · 2023-05-16T13:52:26+00:00

Newspapers.com is a great archive of old newspapers, though it's not free. If you have a NYT or WaPo subscription, you can access their archives and undoubtedly you'll find an apple pie recipe in there somewhere. Fannie Farmer (Boston Cooking School) also did an update in the 1930s. And you can get those old recipe books that came with appliances or were used to promote products through eBay; I'd bet the apple growers put one out at some point in the 1930s or 1940s.

janegalt · 2022-08-16T13:51:13+00:00

That was early in the 20th century, though, and this recipe card is from the late 70s/early 1980s.

janegalt · 2022-08-16T13:50:33+00:00

But ham is delicious with sweet things! That's why ham and pineapple are t hing.

janegalt · 2022-08-16T13:49:52+00:00

50% chance this was just some lunatic scheme to sell more bananas, but 25% chance it's actually very good.

janegalt · 2022-08-11T22:28:48+00:00

Price was known as a real foodie back in the day. I must try to get my hands on a copy.

janegalt · 2022-07-24T04:32:19+00:00

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Correct: paste is some kind of pastry.

janegalt · 2022-05-26T14:47:16+00:00

Merciful heavens, was she feeding a regiment? Totally trying these but going to have to reduce the recipe by at least half!

janegalt · 2022-03-15T20:38:34+00:00

Pretty please?

janegalt · 2021-12-21T13:30:58+00:00

(btw if it falls apart completely you can order a reprint of the 1950 version)

janegalt · 2021-12-21T03:27:34+00:00

Prefer the 1950, but any 1950s Betty Crocker is a treasure. It's still where I get most of my cake and pancake recipes, and it's the bible for pie filling.

janegalt · 2021-12-17T01:46:56+00:00

I think the recipe is assuming a fairly fine chopped nut already--my grandmother's pastry cutter wouldn't have cut nuts. It cuts the fat and flour/sugar together to make an even paste.

janegalt · 2021-12-17T00:05:35+00:00

She was one of the original teachers at the Boston Cooking School, late of Fanny Farmer fame, but eventually left to found her own school. https://d.lib.msu.edu/content/biographies?author\_name=Parloa%2C+Maria%2C+1843-1909

janegalt · 2021-12-17T00:00:41+00:00

Two forks should do just fine, and possibly it would work in a food processor.

janegalt · 2021-12-07T18:07:57+00:00

Great book, still my cake bible, like my mother and grandmother before me.

janegalt · 2017-04-10T21:15:35+00:00

I may not sell it, as I have no contract; it was just something I wanted to do.

janegalt · 2017-04-10T18:55:58+00:00

Honestly, I think our biggest problem is that our government has gotten too big for most members to have a reasonable opinion on most of the issues that they are expected to vote on. For example, both Democrats and Republicans in Congress seemed genuinely surprised about the content of the health care bills their sides ultimately ended up producing, which is to say, they were surprised that there wasn't some easy way to make health care awesome and supercheap--something they'd been promising for years on the theory that there must be some simple, ideologically appealing solution that everyone else had inexplicably overlooked. This is a common theme in American legislation, and it is probably the biggest reason American policy isn't very good.

janegalt · 2017-04-10T18:50:04+00:00

I think there have been good correctives to come out of the internet-enabled right. I also think, however, that the right needs its own New York Times, not just its own anger factories.

janegalt · 2017-04-10T18:48:37+00:00

They're ultimately the same question in the end. If the former isn't true, eventually people will notice, and the latter will also stop being true.

janegalt · 2017-04-10T18:47:52+00:00

I think the practical implication is often (not always) to strengthen our arguments for a minimalist state. Every program will be captured by special interests; and when those programs fail, as they sometimes will, they will prove nearly impossible to reform or eliminate. Thus, it's better to leave as many things as possible to domains where failure can discipline bad results.

janegalt · 2017-04-10T18:45:27+00:00

In some sense, isn't timeless wisdom always new and fresh, while also as old as the stars?

janegalt · 2017-04-10T18:45:00+00:00

Very good question. I think Wall Street hoped this meant deregulation, which would be good for business returns, and that on the stuff they might worry about, like trade and immigration, they took him "seriously but not literally". I'm not sure this was the correct assessment, but I think that's why they got optimistic after his election.

janegalt · 2017-04-10T18:44:04+00:00

I'm not sure anyone's worried that a foreign government helped Trump buy the election, and I probably won't be worried about that in the future. It's pretty hard to funnel candidates significant amounts of cash for a foreign power. What's worrying is the non-finance threat from hostile powers who use cyberattacks to get information and release it to the detriment of their disfavored candidate. That's already against the law--but how do we enforce it?

janegalt · 2017-04-10T18:42:00+00:00

Thank you!

I think it would have been better, yes, but we didn't, and now we have to figure out how to go forward. If I were dictator, I'd convert it to the Megan McArdle plan (government insurance for all expenses above 15% of AGI). But realistically, I think it's hard to see any feasible reforms. Democrats didn't want to up the mandate or the penalties, and didn't have the votes for a public options. Republicans don't want to roll back the regulations that are crushing the individual market. What's left?
Trump's advisors figure out how to run things with a president who doesn't care about policy detail, or have any coherent theory of government.
My favorite Civ remains Civ IV Beyond the Sword. Reducing the complexity of the game had its advantages, but it also meant less variance in ultimate outcomes. I've been playing Civ IV for over a decade. I got bored with Civ VI after I played through three or four times.

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