Day: March 31, 2004

Here's a few links from the Gallery of regrettable food^†

http://www.lileks.com/institute/gallery/knudsen/6.html
http://www.lileks.com/institute/gallery/knudsen/7.html
http://www.lileks.com/institute/gallery/knudsen/8.html
http://www.lileks.com/institute/gallery/knudsen/9.html

With some descriptions quoted below, for your reading and culinary pleasure:

This dish is useful only if a guest has a sudden attack of hemorroids, and needs to lower himself into something that sooths and cools. Otherwise, skip it.

This applies a layer of foam insulation atop a bed of celery-flecked gelatin. The item is shown here as it always appeared at the end of every party: one piece removed, probably by the hostess, and the rest of the dish untouched

† Original link: http://www.lileks.com/institute/gallery/spec.html

Women look best once a month

Women who make the room light up with their good looks may have a secret up their sleeve – it may be down to their menstrual cycle. Both men and women consider a woman's face to be at its most attractive when she is at the peak of her fertility, according to new research.

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[Other] work has shown that women prefer masculine-looking men when they are ovulating. At other times, he says, they prefer softer features that are associated with more social and caring behaviour.

Original article : http://www.nature.com/nsu/040329/040329-6.html