Busy mom-of-four Jessica Sirotin, a native of New Jersey, has spent the past 15 years living in Eastern Europe. Currently based in Warsaw, Poland, Sirotin has also lived in Russia and Hungary, and has enjoyed, mostly, every minute of it. It would be wonderful to think that changing how and what my family consumes is being carried out in the measured and careful way I had planned. In execution, however, I find myself pressured by both circumstances and my four kids. Nevertheless, I think I have

The monster slowly rose to the surface. What had been invisible was now covered with black lava, and we gazed in terror at an enormous hairy hand, perhaps sixty feet long. The palm was up, and the fingers were tightly clenched, and suddenly it jerked convulsively and the fingers opened. Luckily for our heroes, the Hand that No-One Sees wasn’t the Hand that No-One Washes. And it wasn’t a hand in the end after all, it was merely a giant invisible spider.

“Jeeves,” I said, “may I speak frankly?” “Certainly, sir.” “What I have to say may wound you.” “Not at all, sir.”

The definition of cheese — milk that is processed by coagulation of the milk protein casein in many different flavors, textures, and forms— reads like an argument between an old married couple — both agree they don’t see eye to eye, but they’re also not sure they’re arguing about the same thing. Actually, according to the incredibly vague definition above, it seems like the sort of bureaucratic nightmare that even the suits in Brussels would dare not sniff, although we are pretty sure they will