Wednesday, October 25, 2017

Are coriander and cilantro the same or two totally different things?  The short answer is:  It depends on where you are.  They mean the same things in some countries, while others treat them as two completely different components.  The Latin name for the herb in question is Coriandrum sativum.  So, as you can easily see, this is where the word "coriander" is derived from.  In turn, the word "cilantro" is the Spanish translation of this word (coriander).  In the United Kingdom,  the leaves and stalks of the plant are called  "coriander" while the the seeds are called "coriander seeds."  Basically, the word "cilantro" does not exist in the UK.  In the US, the leaves and stalks of the plant are referred to as "cilantro," while the seeds are referred to as "coriander."  In India, the herb is extremely popular in cooking, it is referred to as something different-sounding altogether—"dhania".  Gordon N. Hamilton  Read more and see pictures at https://delishably.com/spices-seasonings/coriander-cilantro

Cilantro/Coriander Leaf Substitute  Replace the coriander called for in the recipe with an equal amount of fresh parsley, tarragon, dill or a combination of the three.  For maximum flavor, add your herbs to the dish just before serving.  Cooking diminishes their flavor significantly.  These substitutes work best when the cilantro is being used as a garnish.  If the recipe you're working on calls for a large amount of cilantro, consider making something else.  Replacing the cilantro that's supposed to be sprinkled on top of a finished dish is very different than replacing the cilantro in a recipe like Chimichurri, where the finished product is almost 50% cilantro.  Dried coriander isn't a good substitute for fresh coriander.  It loses much of its flavor when it's dried, and incorporates into the dish quite differently.  If you don't have any of the suggested fresh herbs on hand, just leave the cilantro out.  Your recipe should still taste great without it.  Coriander Seed/Ground Coriander Substitute  Replace the coriander called for in the recipe with an equal amount of caraway seeds, cumin, fennel or a combination of the three.  Erin Huffstetler   Read more at https://www.thebalance.com/coriander-substitute-1388881

Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957) was a British writer and linguist who originated Basic English, a simplified system of the English language intended as a uniform, standardized means of international communication.  In 1912 Ogden founded an intellectual weekly, The Cambridge Magazine, to which Thomas HardyGeorge Bernard Shaw, H.G. Wells, and other noted literary figures contributed.  In 1919 he turned it into a quarterly and, with the literary scholar I.A. Richards, began publishing preliminary sketches for a book on the theory of languageThe Meaning of Meaning (1923).  In this work he attempted to draw insights from modern psychological research to bear on the linguistic problem of word meaning.  The chapter on definition contained the germ of Basic (short for British, American, scientific, international, commercial) English, which took its final form in 1928.  His Basic Vocabulary (1930) and Basic English (1930) were followed by The System of Basic English (1934). General interest in Basic English did not develop until after 1943, however, when Winston Churchill, with the support of Franklin D. Roosevelt, appointed a committee to study the extension of its use.  https://www.britannica.com/biography/C-K-Ogden  See OGDEN's BASIC ENGLISH Word List - Alphabetic 850 at http://ogden.basic-english.org/wordalph.html

Palindromes are words or sentences that read the same forward as backward.  Examples of palindromic words are:  kayak, racecar, deified, madam.  Rotavator, redivider and Malayalam at 9 letters each are generally agreed to be the longest single word palindromes.  Malayalam is a language used predominantly in the state of Kerala in India.  The Romans used palindromes and one of the most celebrated was found on a wall in the doomed city of Herculaneum.  It reads Sator Arepo Tenet Opera Rotas and can be translated as ‘The sower, Arepo, makes the wheel work.’  This is unusual in that it works if the words are read vertically or horizontally in a square.  http://www.destination-innovation.com/never-odd-or-even-and-other-great-palindromes/

Semordnilaps (the word palindromes in reverse) are words that spell other words when spelled backwards (for example, star/rats, drawer/reward).  https://www.thoughtco.com/what-is-a-palindrome-1691560

The "Black Hole of Calcutta" was a tiny prison cell in Fort William, in the Indian city of Calcutta.  According to John Zephaniah Holwell of the British East India Company, on June 20, 1756, the Nawab of Bengal imprisoned 146 British captives inside the airless room overnight—when the chamber was opened the next morning, only 23 men (including Holwell) were still alive.  This story inflamed public opinion in Great Britain, and led to the characterization of the Nawab, Siraj-ud-daulah, and by extension all Indians as cruel savages.  However, there is much controversy surrounding this story—though the prison was very much a real location that was later used by British troops as a storage warehouse.  As a matter of fact, no contemporary sources ever corroborated Holwell's story—and Holwell has since been caught fabricating other incidents of similar controversial natures.  Many historians question the accuracy, positing that perhaps his account may have been a mere exaggeration or entirely a figment of his imagination.  Some posit that given the dimensions of the room at 24 feet by 18 feet, it would not have been possible to cram more than about 65 prisoners into the space.  Others say that if several had died, all of them inevitably would have at the same time as limited oxygen would have killed everyone simultaneously, not depriving them individually, unless Howell and his surviving crew had strangled the others to save air.  The story of the "Black Hole of Calcutta" actually could be one of history's great scams, along with the "bombing" of the battleship Maine in Havana Harbor, the Gulf of Tonkin Incident, and Saddam Hussein's putative weapons of mass destruction. 

Battling a swarm of fruit flies in your kitchen or bathroom?  Get rid of them quickly with this simple, homemade trap.  1.  Toss out any overripe fruit.  Then, pour a cup of apple cider vinegar into a jar or small bowl.  2.  Add a couple drops of dish soap to the jar.  3. Place the trap in the area where you've seen the fruit flies, and wait for it to do its job.  Fruit flies are attracted to the smell of the vinegar, and will attempt to land on its surface.  Since the dish soap breaks the surface tension of the vinegar, the fruit flies fall in and drown.  Erin Huffstetler  https://www.thebalance.com/get-rid-of-fruit-flies-1388144  See also https://www.wikihow.com/Get-Rid-of-Fruit-Flies

Nancy Jean Cartwright (born October 25, 1957) is an American voice actress and comedian.  She is known for her long-running role as Bart Simpson on the animated television series The Simpsons.  Cartwright also voices other characters for the show, including Nelson MuntzRalph WiggumTodd FlandersKearney, and Database.  Cartwright was born in Dayton, Ohio.  Cartwright moved to Hollywood in 1978 and trained alongside voice actor Daws Butler.  Her first professional role was voicing Gloria in the animated series Richie Rich, which she followed with a starring role in the television movie Marian Rose White (1982) and her first feature film, Twilight Zone:  The Movie (1983).  After continuing to search for acting work, in 1987, Cartwright auditioned for a role in a series of animated shorts about a dysfunctional family that was to appear on The Tracey Ullman Show.  Cartwright intended to audition for the role of Lisa Simpson, the middle child; when she arrived at the audition, she found the role of Bart—Lisa's brother—to be more interesting.  Matt Groening, the series' creator, allowed her to audition for Bart and offered her the role on the spot.  She voiced Bart for three seasons on The Tracey Ullman Show, and in 1989, the shorts were spun off into a half-hour show called The Simpsons.  For her subsequent work as Bart, Cartwright received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance in 1992 and an Annie Award for Best Voice Acting in the Field of Animation in 1995.  Besides The Simpsons, Cartwright has also voiced numerous other animated characters, including Daffney Gillfin in The SnorksRufus in Kim PossibleMindy in Animaniacs, Pistol in Goof Troop, Margo Sherman in The Critic, Todd Daring in The Replacements, and Charles "Chuckie" Finster, Jr. in Rugrats and All Grown Up! (a role she assumed in 2002, following the retirement of Christine Cavanaugh).  In 2000, she published her autobiography, My Life as a 10-Year-Old Boy, and four years later, adapted it into a one-woman play.  She also co-produced the one-woman play In Search of Fellini (2016).  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Cartwright


http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com  Issue 1789  October 25, 2017  On today's date in 1970, a new chamber work by the American composer John Corigliano received its premiere performance at a concert given by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the group that had commissioned it.  The new piece, titled "Poem in October," was scored for tenor voice and eight instruments and was a setting of poetry by Dylan Thomas, the great Welsh poet who died in 1953.  Composers Datebook

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