Eczema Boil

Random Party Guest: “Corn?!”
Me: “Yeah.”
RPG: “That’s a random thing to be allergic to.”
Me: “No more than anything else.”
RPG: “So, like, anything with corn?”
Me: “Yeah.”
RPG: “It’s in everything!”
Me: “Yeah.”
He thinks for a few moments, eyes darting around like the mouse in his head got trapped in a maze. And then he asks my favorite question. The [...]

This is very alarming, especially if you still eat high fructose corn syrup.
Mercury was found in nearly 50 percent of tested samples of commercial high fructose corn syrup (HFCS), according to a new article published today in the scientific journal, Environmental Health. A separate study by the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) detected [...]

My mother found some pre-made bread dough that didn’t have corn syrup, so she made cinnamon rolls. They were delicious and I must admit I lost control and ate 6, or more… I lost track.
The important thing is that my face is breaking out now.

My mother’s pie crust is perfect, really.

I was never much of a breakfast person, but you throw in the corn syrup and citrus allergies and going out for breakfast becomes a moot point. Often it ends up that the only thing on the menu I can eat is a bagel with cream cheese and a glass of milk, which is [...]

Christopher Mims at Scientific American wrote a great review of King Corn, a movie coming out this fall. I hadn’t heard of it but it sounds like it’ll be entertaining and horrifying at the same time. Their site is here.

Sometimes I forget that corn syrup can be anywhere. Last week my boyfriend O and I went to bar with some of O’s coworkers. We were having a good time and I didn’t plan on drinking anything so I ordered a water. Silly me didn’t watch the waitress while she made the drink, or say [...]