Friday, February 16, 2018

Umami is the fifth basic taste after sweet, salty, bitter and sour.  Derived from the Japanese word umai, meaning “delicious,” umami (pronounced oo-MAH-mee) is described as a savory, brothy, rich or meaty taste sensation.  To scientists, umami indicates a high level of glutamate, an amino acid and building block of protein.  To chefs and food lovers, it’s a satisfying sense of deep, complete flavor, balancing savory flavors and full-bodied taste with distinctive qualities of aroma and mouthfeel. Imagine such wholly satisfying foods as steak with sautéed mushrooms, coq au vin and pasta with tomato sauce and Parmesan.  That burst of rich, savory flavor is umami.  Cured meats, soy sauce, aged cheese and mushrooms are rich in it.  http://www.mushroomsonthemenu.com/umami/

13 Foods With Natural Umami by Meaghan Cameron  https://www.rd.com/food/recipes-cooking/13-foods-with-natural-umami/
           
PARAPHRASE from The Careful Use of Compliments, #4 in the Isabel Dalhousie series of novels by Alexander McCall Smith  People are secretly delighted when those who boast of their wealth take a tumble.  See also 100 Alexander McCall Smith Quotes To Keep You High-Spirited at https://quotes.thefamouspeople.com/alexander-mccall-smith-5266.php  The website provides a biography as well as quotes.

According to Russell Ackoff, a systems theorist and professor of organizational change, the content of the human mind can be classified into five categories:  Data:  symbols; Information:  data that are processed to be useful; provides answers to "who", "what", "where", and "when" questions; Knowledge:  application of data and information; answers "how" questions; Understanding:  appreciation of "why"; Wisdom:  evaluated understanding.  Ackoff indicates that the first four categories relate to the past; they deal with what has been or what is known.  Only the fifth category, wisdom, deals with the future because it incorporates vision and design.  With wisdom, people can create the future rather than just grasp the present and past.  Gene BellingerDurval CastroAnthony Mills  Read much more at http://www.systems-thinking.org/dikw/dikw.htm

Kansas City has been popularly called ‘Paris of the Plains.’  The city has over 200 picturesque fountains, giving it the nickname ‘The City of Fountains.’  Swope Park, at 1,805 acres, is more than twice the size of Central Park in New York City.  Walt Disney got his start in Kansas City, attending art school in the area.  Walt experimented with animation here and opened his first animation studio, called Laugh-O-Gram Studios, in Kansas City.  Mickey Mouse was inspired by a real-life mouse in the building.  Kansas City area was the birthplace of  president Harry S. Truman.  Before he went into politics, he owned a Kansas City haberdashery.  The area is the third in the nation for professional theaters per capita.  The city is considered the No. 1 inland trade zone in area.  The Country Club Plaza was the first automobile planned shopping area that opened in 1922.  It boasts of 12 towers and numerous fountains and artworks that were modeled after those found in the Spanish city of Seville.  The Kansas City Metropolitan Area has over 220 parks, 29 lakes, 103 playgrounds and 134 miles of trails and bikeways.  http://www.travelwitharchie.com/destinations-usa-missouri-kansas-city-fun-facts/

Kansas City traces its beginnings to 1821, the year Missouri was admitted to the Union.  In that year a Frenchman from St. Louis, Francois Chouteau, came up the Missouri River and established a trading post on the waterway about three miles below the great bend in the river, now the Northeast Industrial District.  After being flooded out in 1826, he rebuilt on higher ground at the foot of what is now Troost Avenue.   Legend has it that the names Port Fonda, Rabbitville and Possum Trot were rejected in favor of  the Town of Kansas, after the Kansa Indians who inhabited the area.  The town retained that name when it was incorporated and granted a charter by Jackson County June 1, 1850.  (When it was incorporated by the state Feb. 22, 1853, it became the City of Kansas, and in 1889, it officially became known as Kansas City.)  The railroads helped make possible one of Kansas City’s biggest early-day industries:  cattle.  From beginnings not long after the Civil War, the city became one of the world’s major cattle markets. The Kansas City stockyard was founded in 1870, and the Kansas City Livestock Exchange there, in its heyday early in the 20th century, was the largest building in the world devoted exclusively to livestock interests.  It is said to have more fountains than any city except Rome, and more boulevards than any city except Paris.  http://kcmo.gov/kansas-city-history/

The Toledo Lucas County Public Library is excited to welcome the Ann Arbor Film Festival Tour, in advance of the 56th Ann Arbor Film Festival this spring.  The AAFF is a pioneer of the traveling film festival concept, having launched an annual tour program in 1964.  The AAFF selects films from the past year’s festival to screen in art house theaters, museums, universities, cinematheques and media art centers.   Thursday, Feb. 22 | 7 p.m.  McMaster Center  Main Library  325 Michigan St.  Commodity City by Jessica Kingdon  (Tom Berman Award for Most Promising Filmmaker);  personne by Christoph Girardet & Matthias Müller  (Leon Speakers Award for Best Sound Design);  The Interior by Jonathan Rattner  (Michael Moore Award for Best Documentary); Walk For Me by Elegance Bratton; (\aut\Film Award for Best LGBTQ Film)  Railment by Shunsaku Hayashi  (Chris Frayne Award for Best Animated Film);  and Pokey Pokey by Junjie Zhang (Jury Award).  Established in 1963, the Ann Arbor Film Festival is the oldest avant garde and experimental film festival in North America.  The six-day festival presents 40 programs with more than 200 artist films from over 20 countries from over 20 countries of all lengths and genres, including experimental, animation, documentary, narrative, hybrid, and performance based works.  The 56th Festival will take place March 20 - 25, 2018 at the historic Michigan Theater in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

February 16, 2018  Grand Jury Indicts Russians Linked To Interference In 2016 Election  See article from NPR at

February 16, 2018  Indictment from Department of Justice  See 37-page document at https://www.justice.gov/file/1035477/download

http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com  Issue 1844  February 16, 2018, extra edition  On this date in 1727, Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, Austrian botanist, chemist, and mycologist, was born.  On this date in 1740Giambattista Bodoni, Italian publisher and engraver, was born.  On this date in 1774Pierre Rode, French violinist and composer, was born.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_16

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