[…] alas! my child, by not passing the night wisely in reading, when thou art among the learned, thou stickest like a calf in the mud.

If a cellar prefigures the underworld, an attic promises a rather threadbare paradise, where the dead bodies appear in a pulverulent glow.

Diana Dors, the 1950s blonde bombshell

Among many masa dishes is a cannolilike dessert: Masa is molded around a tube, deep-fried, cooled, sugar dusted, then filled with pumpkin seed mousse and tipped with finely minced fresh mint.