Category: Daily Updates

I found out how fast mildew works when I left a damp rain jacket balled up at the bottom of my gym bag for four days after a weekend hike. I’d forgotten it was in there. When I finally unzipped the bag, the jacket had a faint...

I dyed my hair at my kitchen sink last winter, wearing what I thought was appropriate protection: an old gray sweatshirt I didn’t care about. What I didn’t plan for was leaning over the counter and catching the cuff against a...

Tzatziki looks simple, strained yogurt, grated cucumber, garlic, a little oil, but that simplicity is exactly why its shelf life varies so much depending on who made it. A tub from the grocery store and a bowl mixed together at...

Guacamole has a reputation problem: it turns an unappetizing shade of brown within hours of being made, long before it’s actually gone bad, which leads a lot of people to either toss good guacamole too early or, worse,...

I ruined a white cotton robe the first time I tried an at-home self-tanner. Not because I was careless. I read the instructions, waited the full development time, even put on an old t-shirt as a buffer before slipping the robe...