On December 5, 2018 the Eater staff announced the
winners of the ninth
annual Eater Awards, "shining a spotlight on the people who
shaped food culture this year" and celebrating the standout achievements
of a jam-packed year in the food and restaurant world. The Eater Awards are meant to honor the
people who shaped the way we thought about, talked about, and ultimately
experienced dining this year—in restaurants, on television, and at home. Eater Awards aren’t the only accolades we use
to define the year in feasting—we’ve got lists of the year’s Best
New Restaurants and nationwide
essentials, too. Read about and see pictures of the winners at
Sweet potatoes are not a type of yam, and yams are not
a type of sweet potato. They are both tuberous root vegetables that
come from a flowering plant, but they are not related and actually don't even
have a lot in common. Yams are native to
Africa and Asia, with the majority of the crop coming from Africa. They are related to lilies, and can be as
small as a regular potato or jumbo in size (some grow five feet long!). Yams have a cylindrical shape with blackish
or brown, bark-like skin and white, purple, or reddish flesh. Compared to sweet potatoes, yams are
starchier and drier. There are many
varieties of sweet potatoes, which come from the morning glory family. Skin color can be white, yellow, red, purple,
or brown, while the flesh can be white, yellow, orange, or even orange-red. These vegetables have an elongated shape with
tapered ends. Kelli Foster https://www.thekitchn.com/whats-the-difference-between-yams-and-sweet-potatoes-word-of-mouth-211176
Tom Cruise gives lesson in TV settings and 'motion
smoothing' by Dave Lee In an impassioned video posted
to Twitter on December 4, 2018, the Mission Impossible star warned that a
default setting on many high-end televisions "makes most movies look like
they were shot on high-speed video instead of film". “If you own a modern high-definition
television," he said, "there’s a good chance you’re not watching
movies the way the filmmakers intended, and the ability for you to do so is not
simple to access." Motion
smoothing, or interpolation, is a technique that artificially adds additional
frames to the moving image in order to prevent blurring--most effective when
watching sport. But many in the film
industry hate it, however, as it can degrade the image quality of the original
film, and alter colouring. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-46449906 Motion smoothing is also called the
"soap opera effect."
December 4, 2018 Seeing a rainbow is a stroke of luck,
and a double rainbow is even more spectacular. But a triple rainbow? Impossible as it may seem, a bizarre tangling
of colorful arcs was sighted in Robbinston, Maine, last week. Tertiary and quadruple rainbows are real
things, first photographed in 2011.
Third- and fourth-order rainbows are unlike their lesser-order siblings,
instead appearing on the same side of the sky as and centered on the sun The rain has to be opposite the sun for the
first two bows, and then any rain to the left and right of the sun is the
canvas for the third- and fourth-order bows—but at the same time, the sun has
to be unobstructed. It must also shine
brilliantly enough that, amid all the reflections within the raindrop, enough
light is left over for that fourth arc to shimmer. Lining up those conditions
is about as tough as winning the lottery.
Matthew Cappucci See graphics at https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2018/12/04/triple-rainbow-appeared-maine-last-week-heres-how-it-happened/?utm_term=.eba9fa132cc4
"Seeing isn't believing. Feeling is believing." "The
library is like a candy store where everything is free." The illusory
presence of the stage--where the unreal becomes real . . . Songs of Willow Frost, second novel of Jamie Ford
quotes from the acknowledgments section: I'm offering a rousing standing
ovation to the staff of Seattle's Wing Luke Museum for your acceptance and
encouragement . . . A wide-eyed wave, as I press my nose to the window of
the Museum of History 8: Industry
(MOHAI). I'm the kid. You're the candy store . . .
A shout-out to the Tacoma Public Library . . .
Jamie Ford (born July 9, 1968) is an American author.
He is best known for his debut novel, Hotel
on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet. The book received
positive reviews after its release, and was also awarded best "Adult
Fiction" book at the 2010
Asian/Pacific American Awards for Literature. The book was also named the #1 Book Club Pick
for Fall 2009/Winter 2010 by the American
Booksellers Association.
Jamie Ford was born in Eureka, California,
but grew up in Ashland, Oregon,
and Port Orchard and Seattle, Washington. His father, a Seattle native, is of Chinese
ancestry, while Ford’s mother is of European descent. His Western last name "Ford" comes from
his great grandfather, Min Chung (1850-1922), who immigrated to Tonopah, Nevada in 1865 and later changed
his name to William Ford Ford's great
grandmother, Loy Lee Ford, was the first Chinese woman to own property in
Nevada. Ford earned a degree in Design
from the Art Institute
of Seattle and also attended Seattle’s School of Visual
Concepts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Ford
See also A Conversation
with Jamie Ford at http://www.jamieford.com/interview/
Vermilion An orangish red pigment with excellent hiding power
and good permanence. It's a mercury
sulfide mineral (cinnabar) used from antiquity through to the present though
only scarcely due to its toxicity. Made artificially from the 8th century
(vermilion), it was the principle red in painting until the manufacture of its
synthetic equivalent, cadmium red. The
name "Vermilion" comes from Latin vermiculus = small
worm, cochineal (which yields a red dye), from vermis = worm. http://www.webexhibits.org/pigments/indiv/overview/vermilion.html
The Lure of the Red Herring Before modern refrigeration and speedy
transport, fish could not be got to customers more than a few miles inland
before it went bad. Various methods were
invented for preserving them, using salting, smoking or pickling. Kippers are herrings that have been split,
salted, dried and smoked. Yarmouth
bloaters are made by a variation on kippering but are whole fish and do not
keep so well. Arbroath smokies are
smoked haddock. Red herrings are a type
of kipper that have been much more heavily smoked, for up to 10 days, until
they have been part-cooked and have gone a reddish-brown colour. They also have a strong smell. They would keep for months (they were
transported in barrels to provide protein on long sea voyages) but in this
state they were inedible and had to be soaked to soften them and remove the
salt before they could be heated and served.
The first reference to them in English is from around 1420, although the
technique is older than that. Scott Ross
and the Oxford English Dictionary now trace the
figurative sense to the radical journalist William Cobbett, whose Weekly Political Register thundered in the years
1803-35 against the English political system he denigrated as the Old Corruption. He wrote a story, presumably fictional, in the
issue of 14 February 1807 about how as a boy he had used a red herring as a
decoy to deflect hounds chasing after a hare. He used the story as a metaphor to decry the
press, which had allowed itself to be misled by false information about a
supposed defeat of Napoleon; this caused them to take their attention off
important domestic matters: “It was a
mere transitory effect of the political red-herring; for, on the Saturday, the
scent became as cold as a stone.” This
story, and his extended repetition of it in 1833, was enough to get the
figurative sense of red herring into
the minds of his readers, unfortunately also with the false idea that it came
from some real practice of huntsmen. It
was reinforced by the belief of Cobbett’s son that the origin was correct; he
included it in a commentary on an edition of his father’s Rural Rides in 1853.
There are thousands of named date
varieties. They fall
into two main categories, soft and dry, and are most readily available from
fall through winter. See information on
nine varieties, including medjool, known as the “queen of dates”
for its large size, pillowy texture, and very sweet, strong flavor. Its name means “unknown.” https://www.marthastewart.com/1099106/glossary-dates
George H.W. Bush's biographer hails
the late president
as a noble man who made the world better and inadvertently made it
chuckle. Nashville historian Jon Meacham spoke at the state funeral for Bush
Wednesday in Washington and
told mourners that Bush's credo was, "Tell the truth, don't blame
people, be strong, do your best, try hard, forgive, stay the course." https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/politics/2018/12/05/jon-meacham-president-george-bush-funeral/2215276002/
Watch Jon Meacham's 12:11 G.H.W.
Bush eulogy at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDeXqjhsLW0
The best ship is friendship is part of a proverb that George
H.W. Bush quoted to Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney. Mulroney recounted the story when he spoke at
the G.H.W. Bush's state funeral on December 5, 2018. Watch the 12:01 eulogy at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZflCmZq9dc
http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com December 7, 2018 Issue 2000
341st day of the year
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