Open Thread
Need a Hand?
Your Next Project Starts with BrownstonerMost Recent Articles
Need a Hand?
Your Next Project Starts with Brownstoner
Dona – are you half Italian and Irish?
BEnson =what did my people do to yours when they came over? can’t be any worse than what was done them them when they arrived???
quote:
If you weren’t responding to my post, Rob, I’d say that you are pretty elitist in your tastes.
i wasn’t exactly spending my own money tho when i used to shop at fairway.
*rob*
gem, Polly-O ricotta is far different from Polly-O mozzarella. BIG DIFFERENCE.
I live on 13th floor here!
Hoping to avoid Chapter 11.
Heavy Drinking in Adolescence May Change Brain Development
Oct. 19 (Bloomberg) — Heavy drinking as a teenager may change brain development, affecting areas involved in judgment, social skills and decision-making, according to a study.
Researchers determined that teenagers scored worse on a battery of psychological tests if they were diagnosed with substance abuse or dependence, compared with nonabusing teens, according to a study in the journal Alcoholism. The study also found that the adolescents who used marijuana had significantly poorer memory than those who didn’t.
Adolescence is a time when the brain develops rapidly and social skills, foresight and abstract reasoning are developed, according to previous research. Those are areas of the mind that are consistently impaired in adult alcoholics, according to background material in today’s study.
“The presence of clinically significant binge drinking and marijuana use diverts the course of normal cognitive development,†wrote the authors, led by Robert Thoma, a psychiatrist at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque.
Boy, I wish I knew that 40 years ago!!!!!!!!
quote:
“may I bring up the little matter of the way the Irish treated the Italians when they first came here?
lol. my grandmother was italian and first gen to be born here and my grandfather was irish and first gen to be born here and they both used to really trash talk each other’s families. my grandfather’s irish family was WAY more classier tho than my grandmother’s italian family. my great grandmother on my grandmother’s side had like 45 gazillion kids from random baby daddy’s, lived in the projects, and was a nasty ole’ coot who smelled like moth balls and sanka!!!
*rob*
I have to agree with Benson
italians do use Polly-O
my Nona (well she’s my cousins’ grandma – (she’s the only Grandma I got) is from Avellino and we chat a lot about cooking when I go over to my cousins house and she looked me like I was crazy when I asked her what mozzerella I should use in my lasagne?
however CH – I did try low-moisture Organic Valley mozzerella on my lasagne and WOW what a difference – it really did cut down on the extra fluid lasange produces
also I use Ricotta from Fairway – am a snob!
If I can’t get really good fresh mozzarella, the BelGiosio (sp?) buffala is great…almost as soft as a buratta.
It comes inside a plastic sack full of liquid and then inside a platic container with green lettering. Not a lot of places carry it..imported directly from Italy once a week.
SQOTD:
Why are builders afraid to have a 13th floor, but book publishers aren’t afraid to have a Chapter 11?