Three European cities have
become eponyms for common American edibles. Bologna, a gastronomic center in
northern Italy, has been credited with many delectable dishes that have spread
throughout the world; Venus’s navel, better known as tortellini, is served in
the best of European and American restaurants.
But the eponymous food that has made the city famous is the sausage. The name of the sausage has been corrupted to
baloney. An ordinary way of expressing
disbelief is to say, You’re full of baloney.
Baloney has become the equivalent of nonsense. The phrase proliferated during the early ‘30s,
and it may have had its genesis in a jingle:
Dress it in silks and make it look phoney, / No matter how thin you
slice it, it’s still baloney. The
frankfurter is a sausage originally made in
Frankfurt, Germany. During World War
I, the American soldiers called this snack a victory steak, but in America,
where it found a warm home, the frankfurter received a new name: hot dog. The name giver was T. A. Dorgan, the most
prominent sports cartoonist of the era. According
to H. L. Mencken, the first person to heat the roll, and add mustard and
relish, was Harry Stevens, concessionaire at the Polo Grounds, home of the New
York Giants. According to William
Morris, the hot dog in the Midwest is called a Coney Island, and it is piled
high with all kinds of culinary treats, but it has ketchup. Ketchup is unheard of on Coney Island, New
York; there the hot dog is drenched with mustard. From Laurence J. Peter, Quotations for Our
Time (1977), has come the warmest tribute to a hot dog: The noblest of all dogs is the hot-dog; it
feeds the hand that bites it. The meat
pattie known as the hamburger originated in the city of Hamburg, Germany. In the
early days in the United States, chopped beef was known as hamburger steak and
was served like any other steak. With
time, hamburger steak degenerated from the estate of a steak to the level of a
sandwich. It then became known as
hamburger, the biggest selling fast-food item, in America. http://www.eponym.ru/content/bologna-frankfurter-hot-dog-hamburger
Imply and infer are
opposites, like a
throw and a catch. To imply is to hint at something, but
to infer is to make
an educated guess. The speaker does the implying,
and the listener does the inferring. https://www.vocabulary.com/articles/chooseyourwords/imply-infer/
Imply When you imply, you hint at something
rather than saying it directly. Imply comes from an Old French word that
meant “to enfold.” You can think of an
implied statement as hidden or folded into what was actually said. Infer When you infer, you deduce some meaning
that was left unsaid. Infer comes from a Latin word that means
“to bring in.” http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/imply-versus-infer
HISTORY OF NFL RULES 1869: Rutgers and Princeton played a college soccer football
game, the first ever, November 6. The
game used modified London Football Association rules. During the next seven years, rugby gained
favor with the major eastern schools over soccer, and modern football began to
develop from rugby. 1876:
At the Massasoit convention, the first rules for American football were
written. Walter Camp, who would become
known as the father of American football, first became involved with the
game. 1898: A touchdown was
changed from four points to five. 1904:
A field goal was changed from five points to four. 1906: The forward pass was legalized. 1909: A field goal dropped from four points to
three. 1912: A touchdown was
increased from five points to six. Read the rest of the story at http://www.sportsattic.com/araig/NflRulesHistory.htm See also https://operations.nfl.com/the-rules/evolution-of-the-nfl-rules/
Yara
Sayeh Shahidi (born
February 10, 2000) is an American actress and model. She is best known for starring as Zoey Johnson
on the sitcom Black-ish (2014–present)
and its spin-off series Grown-ish (2018). Shahidi was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to a mother, Keri Salter Shahidi, of African-American and Choctaw descent, and an Iranian-American father, Afshin Shahidi, a photographer. The family moved to California for Afshin's
work when Yara was 4. She is the older
sister of child actor and model Sayeed Shahidi, and they have a younger brother, Ehsan. The rapper Nas is their
cousin. Keri Shahidi said the name Yara translates to "someone who is capable to do
something, or someone is so strong and clever to do something hard" in
Farsi. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yara_Shahidi
14 Quotes From Yara Shahidi That Prove She's the Most
Inspiring Teen by ANDREA CHENG “What’s so cool about my generation is
that being socially aware is ingrained in who we are. It’s almost as though we were born with a
debt to society to do our part, to be a part of this peer group that
understands pretty immediately the idea that whatever we do has to benefit the
greater good of humanity.” Read more and
see pictures at https://www.glamour.com/story/yara-shahidi-inspiring-quotes
Coconut Rice Pudding with Cardamom and Kirsch
Cherries by Sue Quinn
Download Sheet Pan
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jalopy
noun An old, run-down automobile,
this word first appeared in the United States in the 1920's. Some early variants were gillopy, jaloppi, and jaloupy.
Researchers have not been able to determine the precise origins of this
word, but a theory is that it is derived from a non-Spanish pronunciation of
Jalapa, Mexico. It seems that, during
the 1920's, many decrepit automobiles were shipped from New Orleans to scrapyards
in Jalapa. The theory is that some of
the dock hands or crew members began naming these broken-down autos after their
destination and the name eventually morphed into our current jalopy. https://word-ancestry.livejournal.com/31064.html
The Harry Ransom Center, the humanities research library and museum at the
University of Texas at Austin, has acquired the archive of late Pulitzer
Prize-winning American playwright Arthur Miller.
Obtained from the Arthur
Miller Trust, the archive spans Miller’s career. Beginning with Miller’s first play No
Villain (1936), written when Miller was at the University of Michigan,
to Finishing the Picture (2004), the archive also includes
drafts of All My Sons (1947), Death of a Salesman (1949), The Crucible (1953), A View from the Bridge (1955), After
the Fall (1964), Incident at Vichy (1964), The Price (1968), The
Creation of the World and Other Business (1972), and The Ride
Down Mt. Morgan (1991), as well as screenplays, short stories, and
other writings. The archive also
features more than 50 journals kept by Miller from the 1940s to the 2000s. The Ransom Center had a close association
with Miller, who first donated a group of early play manuscripts and working
notebooks to the Center in the 1960s.
“We are pleased to have found a fitting home for Dad’s voluminous notes
and papers at the Harry Ransom Center, where they will be added to the rest of
his earlier works already in place there,” stated Robert A. Miller. “The Center is well known for its collection
of many of the finest writers in America and beyond, and we look forward to
partnering with them as we explore how best to present his works and life in
ways that can reflect his seemingly boundless curiosity and insight coupled
with his unique observations and reflections on the 20th century world as he
saw it, both intimate and global.” The
work of photographers Eve Arnold, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Bruce Davidson, Fred
Fehl, Arnold Newman, and Miller’s third wife, Inge Morath, are also part of the
archive. Some are portraits of Miller,
productions of his plays, family photographs, and snapshots. The acquired materials will be cataloged
within two years and will then be accessible to researchers, students, and the
public.
http://www.playbill.com/article/harry-ransom-center-acquires-arthur-miller-archive Search the Harry Ransom Center collections at
http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/collections/guide/.
Recipes
courtesy of Chef Edward Lee, chef and
owner of MilkWood in Louisville, Kentucky
Spicy Rice Cakes with Ramen Noodles & Braised Bacon, Edamame Grits
with Crushed Peanuts, and Bourbon Sweet Tea with Peaches, Lemon and Mint http://www.cbs.com/shows/the_talk/topics/show/1004377/
http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com Issue 1827
January 16, 2018 On this date in 27 BC, Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus was
granted the title Augustus by
the Roman Senate,
marking the beginning of the Roman Empire. On this date
in 1909, Ernest Shackleton's expedition found the
magnetic South Pole. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_16 Word
of the Day serac/sérac noun a hard, cone-shaped, pale green, strongly flavoured cheese from Switzerland made from skimmedcowmilk and blue fenugreek (Trigonella
caerulea); Schabziger, Sapsago. It is usually eaten grated, mixed with butter, or in a fondue.
A sharp tower of ice formed by intersecting crevasses of a glacier.
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