So far, most of what’s known about the substance’s effects on the brain comes from studies in rats and in cells grown in a lab dish — not in people. For example, researchers have found that methylene blue
as reflected through dishes and ingredients from around the world. In the February 1991 issue of, she reflected on the women of her family, including her Grandmother Harris who hailed from "hardscrabble Deep South," her Grandma Jones who "had more patrician origins and harked back to the kitchen of Virginia plantations manned by house slaves who turned spits, put up preserves, and served elegant meals," and her dietitian mother who honored both of these traditions.
"Fate has placed me at the juncture of two African American culinary traditions: the plantation Big House and the rural South," Harris wrote. She went on to follow countless pathways from that origin point, exploring her Southern roots in a 1994 menu featuringalong with spinach spiked with baked sweet potatoes, hot sauce-spiked spinach, and gingersnaps with ice cream.Harris traveled to the Caribbean for a September 1996 feature on chicken dishes including Puerto Rico's
— a dish she explained "is a legacy of indentured servants who came from coastal India in the last century" and "has taken a bit from the French and a bit from the African to become truly Creole."And she has shared recipes and essays with Food & Wine along the way — notably a 1996 exploration of
and another on her mother's
, a 2022 reflection on her decades spent entertaining friends inThe 46-year-old British podcaster and novelist, who hosts the podcast
says she always knew she wanted to have kids. Growing up in a heteronormative family with two sisters and two parents, Day believed she was going to be a mother from the very beginning."I don't think I ever questioned the fact that I would have children," she tells PEOPLE.
Day, who grew up attending an all-girls school, explains that she went on birth control when she became sexually active and was on the pill for 14 years before she stopped taking it after getting married to her first husband."I thought, because there is this idea that if you come off the pill, there's this sort of fertility boost sometimes and you can get pregnant at the drop of a hat," Day says. "And so I thought that might happen, but actually it didn't happen at all. And that's when I started exploring whether there was something awry."